Balance Quote by Stephen Schneider

I am an advocate of honesty and openness, and I think deceit is a dangerous seed to plant and let grow in relationships.

— Cheryl Strayed

Honest people have no ethics

— Sam DeCavalcante

“On a practical level, there are two vital steps to ethical behavior: knowing what is right and doing it.”

— Michael Josephson

Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

— James A. Garfield

I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress…

— H. G. Wells

The more facts I can have, the better. I can operate very nicely between them, but I am not very good at making things…

— Hilary Mantel

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

— Jorge Paulo Lemann

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day…

— Albert Camus

Honesty leads to peace.

— Veronica Roth

There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and…

— O. Henry

Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.

— Peter Singer