Psychologists have long assumed that the evolution of cooperation and altruism in humans should have led to the development of special adaptations for remembering fellow tribesmen who are not trustworthy. Experiments, however, have shown that the names and faces of deceivers are no better remembered than the names and faces of honest people. The difference is that facts that discredit the reputation of personalities known to us are remembered much better than information about good or neutral actions.

Cooperation, mutual assistance and altruism play a huge role in the life of human groups. Long gone are the days when the development of altruism seemed difficult to explain from a natural scientific perspective. Under certain conditions, genes (more precisely, genetic variations - alleles) that provide a tendency towards cooperative and altruistic behavior spread throughout the population even if it is more profitable for each individual individual to behave selfishly and not help anyone. Elements has already written more than once about how this happens (see the selection of links in the note Intergroup wars - the cause of altruism?, Elements, 06/05/2009). As a matter of fact, from the point of view of an individual, egoism is simply by definition always more profitable than altruism.

However, it is more correct to consider any adaptations from the point of view of their benefits not for the individual, but for gene spread, which are responsible for the formation of these adaptations. Natural selection can occur at different levels, but its results are recorded (“remembered”) only at the level of genes - and nothing else. The “altruism gene” can literally doom its carriers to death, but will still spread - for example, thanks to the mechanism of “kin selection” (by sacrificing itself, an individual saves its relatives, many of whom carry copies of the same “altruism gene” "). The selfless care of parents for their offspring is the most widespread result of kin selection.

Therefore, usually “genes of altruism” are distributed in the gene pool of a population in close collaboration with “genes for fighting deceivers” (see: Altruism of social insects is supported by police methods, “Elements”, 11/08/2006).

Reciprocal altruism presupposes the ability of individuals to single out from among their relatives those who have proven themselves to be selfish, and not have anything to do with them. In this way, two goals are achieved at once: selfishness is “punished” (the profitability of selfish behavior decreases), and an individual who avoids communicating with egoists increases its chances of not being deceived. Based on these considerations, evolutionary psychologists suggest that natural selection should have developed in our ancestors special psychological adaptations that helped identify and remember deceivers. This hypothesis has a number of testable implications. In particular, she predicts that our ability to remember deceivers may be stronger than other similar abilities, such as remembering people with good or unknown reputations.

Several studies have previously been conducted to test this prediction. In general it was confirmed; however, some unexpected details were discovered and new questions arose.

“Remembering a deceiver” consists of two parts: firstly, you need to remember the person himself, and secondly, that he is a deceiver. These are two fundamentally different tasks, which do not necessarily have to always be performed simultaneously and in concert. It is possible, for example, to remember a person’s face, but at the same time forget under what circumstances we saw him and what his reputation is. Theoretically, these two aspects of deceiver memory may be developed to varying degrees in people, although distinguishing them experimentally is not easy (and has not generally been done so far).

Recently, German psychologists from Dusseldorf showed that people remember the faces of deceivers no better and no worse than the faces of respectable citizens. However, information about dishonest acts committed by deceivers is imprinted in our memory more effectively than information about the good deeds of kind people or the neutral acts of persons with an unknown reputation (see: Axel Buchner, Raoul Bell, Bettina Mehl, Jochen Musch. // Evolution and Human Behavior. 2009. V. 30. P. 212–224). In principle, this makes sense, given that our memory capacity is not infinite, and numerous and varied social contacts are vital. If we remembered bad people first, there would be less memory space to remember those we can deal with. But if, for one reason or another, we remember a certain person, and we know that we cannot trust him, then it is very important to put the appropriate “tick” in our memory so that in the future, if possible, we do not contact him.

In an article published June 22 in the magazine Evolutionary Psychology, the same authors reported a new series of experiments in which it was shown that remembering people's names, depending on their reputation, follows the same pattern as remembering faces. Thus, on the one hand, the previously identified pattern was confirmed, on the other hand, an argument was obtained against the popular hypothesis, according to which the mechanism for remembering deceivers has a particularly close specific connection with the face recognition system.

The experiment involved 193 people (111 women and 82 men) aged from 18 to 52 years. The same technique was used as in the previous work, with the difference that instead of faces, the subjects were presented with names. Testing was carried out individually. First, the subject was given a list of 36 common male names to read, with each name accompanied by brief information about the person's occupation. A third of the people were characterized as deceivers, a third - as honest people, and neutral information was reported about the remaining third, from which it was impossible to draw a conclusion about the moral qualities of the person. For example, the following stories were used as “compromising” information: “HE sells old cars and at the same time often hides information from buyers about serious defects in his product.” An example of a positive characteristic: “He sells cheese, but he always allows customers to try the cheese and does not try to sell stale goods.”

All features were of the same length (21 words in German) and all had previously been tested in independent tests. It has been shown that “negative” characteristics actually cause a negative reaction, while positive ones cause a positive reaction.

For each subject, the names and characteristics used were randomly combined. Participants had to indicate, on a six-point scale, how much they liked the person. As you might expect, deceivers received the lowest scores, honest people the highest.

At the second stage, the subject was shown 72 names in random order - 36 “old” ones, already familiar to him from the first stage of testing, and the same number of “new” ones. The names this time were not accompanied by any additional information. The subject had to indicate whether the given name was old or new. If he believed that the name was old, then the next question was: is this person a deceiver, honest, or nothing definite can be said about his reputation.

The results obtained were subjected to rather complex statistical processing, which made it possible to divide the act of memorization into two components: remembering the name itself and remembering the moral qualities of its bearer. Naturally, the probability of random guessing was taken into account.

It turned out that remembering the names themselves does not depend at all on the reputation of their bearers. In other words, the names of deceivers, honest people and people with an unknown reputation were remembered by the subjects with equal efficiency. However, information about the moral character of deceivers was remembered much better than similar information about honest and “neutral” individuals. Thus, we are not inclined to selectively remember deceivers, but if it so happens that we remember a given person, then the facts that discredit his reputation will be remembered with special care.

The results suggest that the mechanism for remembering deceivers appears to be more universal and less “specific” than previously thought. Some experts have suggested that to selectively remember information about deceivers, there is a special module in the brain that is closely related to the facial recognition system. This was facilitated by the fact that until now, in most of these experiments, subjects were asked to remember faces. Now, however, it has become clear that it’s not about faces - names “work” just as well. Therefore, if a special “deceiver memory module” exists, it is not strictly tied to the facial recognition system and can use other “personal identifiers,” including names.

Perhaps the increased efficiency of remembering compromising information about people is due to the fact that such information evokes in us a stronger emotional response (indignation, anger) than information about good deeds. Such a differentiated emotional response, in turn, can also be interpreted as an evolutionary adaptation. It is beneficial for us to react more sharply to antisocial actions than to good ones, and to remember them better because they are more informative. In human society, “good” behavior (cooperative, altruistic) in many cases is simply more profitable than antisocial behavior. Therefore, even people who are naturally very prone to deception and fraud often behave honestly, pursuing their own selfish interests - this doesn’t say much. Antisocial actions, on the contrary, betray a selfish person.

Evgeniy Roizman: honest actions of honest people

The guy wrote in a personal message in the spring: “I have a very important question. I ask for advice” I say: Write! He replies: “Too seriously, I can only say personally.” I say: “Okay, come for a run.”

He came, such a serious young guy, and said: “I have a difficult situation, I work in a bank and we are all being driven to the elections to vote for Putin, the mobilization is the most severe, right up to dismissal, but I don’t want to vote for Putin! But I’m in a good position, I have profile images and I have a good salary...”

Well, I started telling him a cautious patter, like, you’re alone in the booth and no one will know who you voted for…. And he suddenly cut me off decisively: “No. I’m not going to bend my heart, I don’t want to lie, wiggle and hide!” I even felt embarrassed that I offered him an undignified way out and with a light heart I said: “Go away.” And he, apparently, was already ready and needed it to be said.

“...we need honest and principled people...”

And so, one day I was running along Plotinka, and a guy stood next to me. He asks while running: “Remember, before the elections I told you that we were being forced to vote for Putin at the bank and asked you what I should do?”
“Yeah,” I said, “and what did you do?”
— As you said, I quit.
- Where now?
- Yes, I got a job in another bank, a higher position and a higher salary.
- Wow! How did it happen?
— I scattered my resume. They invited me for an interview, asked why I quit my previous job, I didn’t lie and told it like it is. They asked me to wait, then the manager came out to me, invited me to his place and said that they would hire me. I say: Aren’t you confused by the reason why I quit?
And the manager says: This is one of the reasons why we are hiring you. We need honest and principled ones.

Evgeniy Roizman (C)

One sincerely honest act will beat a dozen dishonest ones. Sincere displays of honesty and generosity will lull even the most suspicious. When your selective integrity breaks down, you can deceive and manipulate people as you wish. A timely gift - the Trojan Horse - will serve the same purpose.

KEYS TO POWER

The quintessence of deception is distraction. By distracting the people you are trying to deceive, you buy yourself time and space to do something without them noticing. Kind, generous, honest actions are often the most effective way to distract attention, as they disarm even the most suspicious. This turns them into children, ready to believe any spectacular gesture.

In ancient China it was called “give before you take” - while watching you give, others do not notice how you take. It is a mechanism with countless practical applications. Openly taking something away from someone is dangerous, even for those in power. The victim will be inflamed with a thirst for revenge. It is also dangerous to simply ask for what you need, even very politely: if others do not see it as a benefit to themselves, they may be offended by your request. Learn to give before you take. This sets the stage, softens the response to a future request, or simply serves as a distraction. Giving itself can take different forms: a hypothetical gesture of generosity or generosity, an actual gift, a kind favor, an “honest” recognition - depending on the circumstances.

Partial honesty works best if this is your first time dealing with someone. We are all creatures of habit, and our first impressions last a long time. If someone believes in your honesty at the very beginning of your acquaintance, it will be difficult to convince him otherwise. This will give you some wiggle room.

A one-time demonstration of honesty is sometimes not enough. To create a reputation as an honest person, you must perform a number of actions - even if they are completely inconsistent. Once a reputation is established, it, like the first impression, is difficult to shake.

In ancient China, Lord Wu of the kingdom of Chen decided that it was time to take over the kingdom of Chu, which was becoming increasingly powerful. Without informing anyone of his intention, he arranged for the ruler of Chu to marry his daughter. He then called a council and told the ministers: “I am going to start hostilities. What kingdom do you think we should conquer?” As he expected, one of the advisors replied, “Kingdom of Chu.” The ruler seemed angry: “Chu is now a sister state. How could you suggest attacking him? “And he ordered the adviser to be punished for his criminal proposal. The ruler of Chu heard about this and, taking into account numerous reports of Bu's honesty, as well as his marriage to his daughter, did nothing to protect his borders with the Chen kingdom. A few weeks later, the Chen army entered Chu and transferred power to Wu, so that he would never let it out of his hands.

Honesty is one of the best ways to dispel suspicion, but not the only one. Any manifestation of nobility, a selfless act, an act of self-denial will serve this purpose, but especially generosity. Few people can resist a gift, even from a bitter enemy, which is why it is a great way to disarm people. A gift awakens the child in us, otherwise suppressed by wariness. Although we tend to view other people's actions in the most cynical light, we rarely see the Machiavellian motive behind a gift, often hidden behind higher motives. A gift is a wonderful object that can hide base motives.

When using this tactic, you need to be careful: if you are figured out, then disappointment, unrealized feelings of gratitude and warmth will turn into powerful hatred and mistrust. If you cannot give sincerity and warmth to your actions, do not play with fire.

Image: Trojan horse. Your cunning is hidden within a magnificent gift that your opponent cannot resist. The gate opens. Once inside, wreak havoc.

Authoritative opinion: When the ruler, Xin of the Chen kingdom, was about to attack the Yu kingdom, he presented their ruler with jade and a herd of horses. When King Qi was about to attack Zhou, he gave him beautiful chariots. Hence the proverb: “When you are about to take, you must give.”

Han Fei-tzu, Chinese philosopher (19th century BC)

FRANCESCO BORRI, COURT CHARLATAN Francesco Giuseppe Borri from Milan, whose death in 1695 almost coincided with the end of the 17th century, anticipated that special type of charlatan, adventurer, impostor - courtier or cavalier... Real fame came to him after he moved to Amsterdam. There, having assigned himself the title Medico Universale, he surrounded himself with a huge retinue and rode around in a carriage drawn by six horses... Patients flocked to him from everywhere, some patients were carried in sedan chairs from Paris to Amsterdam. Borri did not charge for his consultations, gave away considerable sums to the poor, and was known to never receive money by mail or by bills of exchange. As he continued to live in luxury, a rumor soon spread that he owned the “philosopher’s stone.” Suddenly this benefactor disappeared from Amsterdam. Then it was discovered that he had taken with him money and jewelry that had been entrusted to him for safekeeping.

Olga Ramazanova
Lesson summary “Honesty and lies”

Honesty and lies

Honesty is honest attitude towards something honest behavior.

Honest a person is a sincere, decent, straightforward, conscientious person, true to his word. Honest the person is imbued with sincerity and directness, you can trust him; he is truthful and always sticks to the basic rules honor: speak only the truth, express true feelings and thoughts, do not hide the real state of affairs from other people and from yourself.

Lie is a deliberate distortion of the truth (not true, deception) and misleading other people. A deceitful person is a deceiver, a feigned, insincere, hypocritical, crafty, two-faced, dishonest person. He is deprived honesty. Untrue to his word, prone to deception. A deceitful person deliberately distorts the truth in words, deeds, actions, and misleads others; hides true feelings and thoughts, is a hypocrite.

Theft is actions aimed at stealing and appropriating someone else's property.

Be honest- Is this good or bad?

Goals: familiarize children with moral standards; explain the concepts « honesty» , « lie» , explain why you need to tell the truth; show why people honest actions.

Progress of the lesson

1. Introductory conversation with children questions:

What does it mean to be honest?

What colour honesty?

Is telling the truth good or bad?

Give examples honest act.

Do you like it when people act Honestly?

Are you doing Honestly?Give examples.

Which of the guys in the group (class) committed honest actions?

Do you always tell the truth?

What's happened lie?

Is telling lies good or bad?

Do you have friends who lie?

What does the proverb say?: "Lies have short legs".

Why do I deceive people?

Do you like being deceived? Is it possible to deceive others?

Should cheating be punished?

Are there those among you who have never deceived anyone?

Which one is better to be: deceitful or an honest man? Why do you think so?

Generalization of answers by the teacher children:

Truth is when you say what really is, and not what others want to hear from you. Sometimes it’s difficult to tell the truth; often you have to be brave to admit something. But hiding the truth is even worse. Everything secret becomes clear. Lie does not lead to good people. Sooner or later everyone will find out what really happened, and then it becomes embarrassing.

2. Game “They came to visit us.”

The teacher addresses children:

Imagine that two girls came to visit us, whose names are Pravda and Krivda.

They talk about what pagoda is on the street, what they did today, what they will do tomorrow, who they are friends with.

1. What did the girl say? True?

2. What did the girl Krivda say?

The teacher offers the children pictures (from a series of fables) which were drawn by Truth and Falsehood. It is necessary to clarify what each girl drew.

1. Was it easy to find Krivda’s drawings?

2. How do they differ from Pravda’s drawings?

3. Are the girls friends with each other?

3. Reading and analysis of the story by V. Oseeva “Which is easier?”

Three boys came to the forest. There are mushrooms, berries, birds in the forest. The boys went for a walk and didn’t notice how the day passed. They go home - they are afraid.

We'll end up at home for taking so long.

So they stopped on the road and thought that better: Should I lie or tell the truth?

“I’ll say,” says the first, “that a wolf attacked me in the forest.” The father will be afraid and will not scold.

“I’ll tell you,” says the second, that I met my grandfather. My mother will be happy and will not scold me.

“But I’ll tell the truth,” says the third, “I don’t want to deceive my mother.”

So they all went home. As soon as the first boy told his father about the wolf, lo and behold, the forest guard was coming.

No, he says, there are wolves in these parts.

The father got angry, punished for the first guilt, but double lie.

The second boy told about his grandfather, and his grandfather was right there, coming to visit. Mom found out the right, punished for the first guilt, and for double lie.

And the third boy, as soon as he arrived, confessed everything right away. His mother scolded him and forgave him.

Questions for conversation

1. Which of the boys did you like best? Why?

2. How can you characterize the boy who told his mother the truth? What is he like?

3. Why should you be truthful?

4. Why shouldn’t you deceive people?

5. How do people feel about those who always tell the truth?

6. “The truth is purer than the sun, purer than the sky”- is this proverb true?

4. Game "Trust and support"

The teacher explains that only by trusting a person can you lean on him in a difficult situation, like acrobats in the circus when they jump on the arms and shoulders of their partners. The teacher offers a game "Trust and support", during which you can find out whether children can rely on each other, whether they trust each other.

Children pretend they are acrobats and choose in class (group) those guys (two people who, in their opinion, are reliable and could always support them if they fall.

Game actions

A child acrobat stands with his back to two guys, spreading his arms to the sides. Guys (Support Group) spread your feet shoulder-width apart to take stable position and keep your hands in front of you. When a child acrobat begins to fall, the support group tries to slow down his action and slowly return him to his starting position.

Questions for analyzing a game situation

Questions for the children of the group support:

1. How did you feel when you tried to hold on to your friend?

2. Did you work in harmony?

3. Have you coped with your responsibilities?

4. Are you reliable comrades?

5. What is trust built on?

Questions for a child acrobat:

1. How did you feel when you fell?

2. Can you trust the cheerleaders?

3. Who will you choose to support you next time?

4. What is trust built on?

The teacher leads the children to conclusion: it is very important to trust each other in any life situation, and for this you need to always act Honestly. People who lie once are no longer believed.

5. Practical task: "Forgotten Umbrella"

A passenger gets into a taxi with an umbrella in his hand. He tells the driver where he needs to go. When they arrive at the place, the passenger pays, gets out of the car and disappears into the entrance of the house. Suddenly the driver notices an umbrella forgotten by a passenger. He takes the umbrella and follows the distracted passenger, catches up with him and gives him the umbrella. The passenger thanks the driver.

1. Replay the situation.

2. Assess what is happening.

3. How did the passenger feel when the driver returned the umbrella?

4. Prove why this is the right thing to do.

5. Be honest- Is this good or bad?

6. Exercise "Deceitful - honest chair»

Children are asked to sit alternately on two chairs, first on "deceitful", then - to « honest» . The child sitting on the chair is asked any questions that he must answer. answer: if sitting on « honest» chair, must speak only the truth if sitting on "deceitful" chair - not true.

After completing the exercise, each child shares his impressions, what feelings he experienced, and which chair he liked to sit on. The teacher summarizes what has been said and brings to the main point question: be honest- Is this good or bad?

7. Making a wish

At the end classes the teacher asks each child what he wants to be in life - deceitful or an honest man? The teacher explains what to be in life it's not so easy for honest people, but every person should strive for good deeds, try to be such that people want to be around him, and he is very glad that children want to be fair. He invites the children to close their eyes and whisper their cherished words. wish: "I want to be honest» . If you really want it and put in the effort, your wish will definitely come true. In conclusion, the children repeat the following after the teacher: quatrain:

Friends, I don't deceive

It's bad to be a liar!

And that's why I know

It's better to tell the truth!

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Honesty is the best policy, especially when backed by money.
Mark Twain.

His reputation is too good for an honest man.
Richard Sheridan.

Everyone wants to be taller, more significant. Even in honesty, sincerity, decency.
Ishkhan Gevorgyan.

What's so difficult about honesty? Why is not lying an impossible task for most people? It seems that this whole huge, incredible world rests on one lie. Touch it, dig deeper, and it will collapse like a straw house without a foundation.
Tatiana Kogan.

Truth is a weapon, and so that it is not abused, it must be distributed so that no one is left unarmed.
A. Gelman.

Every transaction between a lie and the truth is always made at the expense of the truth.
J. Massillon.

He won't sell anyone to buy his future. And this, my friends, is called honesty and courage.

Honesty only in personal matters, not accompanied by any definite concepts about general issues of the public good, brings too little benefit to society.
N. G. Chernyshevsky.

Does a saint need honesty? - Khoja Nasreddin was asked.
“Yes, if he wants to correctly measure his distance to God,” he answered.
Absalom the Underwater.

Honest people live a very boring life! Thieves always have a great time, and everyone loves thieves because it’s always satisfying and fun around them.
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov.

It is good to be honest when everyone is equal and poor, but it is almost impossible when there are rich and poor around.
Chingiz Abdullayev.

Be honest and poor, do me a favor, but I will not envy you. I'm not even sure I'll respect you. I respect those who are honest and rich much more.
Jane Austen.

An honest woman is worthy of admiration.
Charles Bukowski.

Wisdom is more valuable than gold, but honesty, justice and dignity are more important than all wisdom.
Ali Absheroni.

Honesty is the true aristocracy of our time.
E. Renan.

No fog can resist the rays of truth.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.

Honesty on the cheat sheet that selling without money.
Konstantin Kushner.

The degree of truthfulness of a person is an indicator of the degree of his moral perfection.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.

Sincerity is not truth.
L. Lavelle.

Express your approval honestly and sincerely.
Dale Carnegie.

Sincerity is strength, and cunning people needlessly neglect it.
A. Count.

Absolute honesty is not the most diplomatic or safe method of communicating with emotional beings.
Interstellar.

If you believe in marriage, live it honestly. If not, get a divorce quickly.
Richard Bach.

An honest person is exalted in soul, therefore his happiness is deep and inescapable. All his deeds bear the stamp of freedom. A vile person has a low soul, so his joy is shallow and fleeting. Everything he has done betrays his weakness.
Hong Zichen.

A person who is not afraid of the truth has nothing to fear from lies.
T. Jefferson.

An honest person often sees through all the tricks of the subtlest businessmen.
I. Goethe.

Shurik is straightforward, honest, decent... These are the qualities of a suicide.
Alexander Demyanenko, actor.

I am selflessly in love with honesty and try to fight lies in all its forms. Therefore, I cannot tell you where I told the truth and where I lied. After all, in this case, the lie will win.
Robert Downey.

Honesty can be very brutal. But I appreciate any honesty.
Matthew McConaughey.

How easy it is to say, “I won’t deceive anyone again.” How easy it is to be honest, courageous and law-abiding when you have nothing to lose!
Oleg Roy.

The greatest insult that can be caused to an honest person is to suspect him of being dishonest.
William Shakespeare.

Live in such a way that your children, thinking about justice and honesty, remember you.
Jackson Brown Jr.

Honesty in journalism is the responsibility of every author. I would say this is an indicator of his “soul”. For ourselves, we are authors, publishers, and publicists. People can twist the truth any way they want. A lie can cross the world before the word of truth comes from the lips.
Ashton Kutcher.

I want to be honest... But less than rich...
Vladimir Semenov.

When a person has no other intention than to tell the truth, a few words are enough for him.
R. Steele.

Courage does not fear the spectacle of crime, honesty does not fear the authorities.
Victor Marie Hugo.

An honest answer can only be obtained from an honest question. Otherwise it will be nonsense. Neither an answer without a question nor a question without an answer is of value. And therefore, until you ask, no one will answer you.
Dmitry Yemets.

Love, by its very nature, has nothing in common with honesty.
Lawrence Durrell.

Of course, you can love a person if you don’t know him too closely.
Charles Bukowski.

You waste a lot of time if you talk nonsense. What do I have to lose by being honest? Why should I pretend to be something I'm not?
Ville Valo.

Always play fair if you hold all the trump cards.
Oscar Wilde.

Everything I think about, I express in words. I'm honest with myself. I am young. I am old. I've been bought and sold so many times. I got calluses. I am no more - I am the same as you.

An honest person must carefully study the experience of dishonest people so as not to accidentally act like them.
Igor Karpov.

Right is what leads to just and honest actions.
Fenimore Cooper.

He is just honest enough not to be hanged.
Pierre Augustin Caron Beaumarchais.

I will probably focus on deeds rather than words. They are more honest.
Dr. House.

The more honestly I answer you, the more of a liar I may seem to you.
Stirlitz, “Seventeen Moments of Spring.”

How should you live: happily or honestly? There is an abyss between happiness and goodness. Few of us find the bridge, others die on the steep path.
Mirza Shafi Vazeh.

In our times, it is already obvious that those sovereigns who cared little about piety and knew how to fool people’s brains with cunning, ultimately defeated those who relied on their honesty.
Nicollo di Bernardo Machiavelli.

The truth, like a jewel, does not need to be embellished, but it should be positioned so that it is visible in favorable light.
D. Santayana.

Nothing dishonest can be truly beneficent.
Benjamin Franklin.

The poorest people are usually the most honest.
Denzel Washington.

We have to play by the rules, because if you win by dishonest means, it's not a real win.

A truthful matter, once it is correctly stated, is indestructible.
Plutarch.

Time is precious, but truth is more valuable than time.
B. Disraeli.

The bitterest truth is always better than the sweetest lie.
Ya.A. Ostrovsky.

Honesty dies when it sells.
George Sand.

It's very easy to advise others - be honest. And individually, everyone tries to turn their dishonesty into honesty.
Müller, “Seventeen Moments of Spring.”

Rightness and sincerity are the best adornments for both men and women.
O. Henry (William Sidney Porter).

In our country (as someone noted) honest people are rarer than saints.
Vladimir Sergeevich Solovyov.

You have to be honest. If you lie once, you will no longer be trusted.
David Mitchell.

Honesty is a very valuable quality. You shouldn't expect it from people who are cheap.
Warren Buffett.

In this life, someone who is kind, honest and selfless has a very difficult time.
Oleg Roy.

Of two people, the one who doubts will be more honest!
Yuri Alekseevich Dryga.

It's rare to find brash honesty.
Georges Bataille.

Honesty at court is a dangerous thing, for others and for oneself.
Guy Gabriel Kay.

Honesty is a mirror, peering into which everyone wants to see themselves not deceived.
Konstantin Kushner.

Honesty takes too much time.
Max Fry.

The truth is always dangerous for the power of scoundrels, exploiters, robbers. That's why the truth is suppressed.
Y. Debs.

Truth loves to dwell in action: not every matter is truth, but truth always lives in action.
MM. Prishvin.

Becoming honest with yourself is as difficult and dangerous as drinking a cauldron of boiling water. It is much easier and safer to cook others in this cauldron, revealing to them the truth about yourself.
Stanislav Kushnarov.

Be honest with yourself and with people, always do everything on time, never give up, go towards your goals, even if everything is bad.
Steven Paul Jobs.

If you are honest and frank, and people will deceive you, still be honest and frank.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

Sometimes honesty encounters injustice and ingratitude, but to refuse it is the same as a sighted person pretending to be blind.
Mark Levy.

Become an honest person, and then you can be sure that there is one less rogue in the world.
Thomas Carlyle.

Honesty is the same unnecessary seasoning for beauty as honey sauce for sugar.
William Shakespeare.

The closest thing to greatness is honesty.
Victor Marie Hugo.

Scoundrels love honest people.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.

The smarter and more skillful a person is, the more hated he becomes when he has lost his reputation for honesty.
Cicero.

He who demands payment for his honesty most often sells his honor.
Luc de Clapier de Vauvenargues.

He who writes the truth rejects any lie.
B. Brecht.

I will not hesitate to follow anyone who speaks to me with the voice of truth.
W. Whitman.

The truth is short: lies are always verbose.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.

Personally, between a person who is evil, unfriendly and a person who lies for no reason, I will choose the first one, no matter what the situation is. Because even an evil person can be relied upon, but there is no hope for a lying infantile. You never know if he's lying to you right now...
Oleg Roy.

This is what I think: if you can’t do it honestly, don’t do it at all.
Viggo Mortensen.

True honesty often lives like a pearl in a dirty oyster shell.
William Shakespeare.

The honesty of a great heart, transformed into a clot of truth and justice, strikes like lightning.
Victor Marie Hugo.

At least be honest enough to not lie to others.
F. Bacon

Honesty is the simplest expression of the principle of truth.
S. Smiles

Truth never looks back to expose lies; her own frankness is the harshest reproof.
G. Thoreau.

Someone said that life would be hard if it weren't for the honest eyes of dogs. He's a fool. A dog is good. But the best thing is people's honest eyes.
Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria.

Anyone who does not suffer from the disease of remorse, let him not think about honesty.
Jules Renard.

Sincerity is the mother of truth and the sign of an honest person.
D. Diderot.

Truth is stranger than fiction: fiction must adhere to verisimilitude, but truth does not need this.
Mark Twain.

We must be honest with those we love.
Angel de Coitiers.

Create a “Society of Honest People” and all thieves will join it.
Emile-Auguste Chartier.

Honesty leads to God, but wickedness leads away from Him.

I never trusted him - he's too honest.

Even the most cunning man can, at best, only match the most truthful woman.
Choderlos de Laclos.

If a person loses the love of honesty, he will quickly become involved in so many bad actions that he will acquire the habit of dishonest rules of life.

There are probably many spirits in heaven who have never seen such a curiosity as the honest cardinal. And perfumes are big hunters of new products.
Ethel Lilian Voynich.

The people need to be told the truth, only then will their eyes be opened and they will learn to fight against untruth.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

If the “honest and noble word” were capable of striking every liar with lightning, it would be difficult to walk along the streets from the burning bodies.
Anton Chizh.

He who remains honest for a long time eventually becomes fearless.
Reginald Darnell Hunter.

Love of life means love of truth.
R. Kent.

Truth overcomes any space and cannot be stopped by any boundaries.
A. Barbusse.

God lives in an honest head.
Japanese proverb.

It's never too late to start an honest life.
Latin proverb.

The proletariat needs the truth, and there is nothing more harmful to its cause than a plausible, decent, philistine lie.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

If scammers knew all the benefits of honesty, they would stop cheating for the sake of profit.
Benjamin Franklin.

Honesty is the road to salvation. Courage is the path to success.

Justice is the valor of chosen natures, truthfulness is the duty of every decent person.
IN. Klyuchevsky.

No matter how much you are offended, you still need to trust people. Otherwise, you will become like a hermit in a cave, who is on alert even in his sleep. Danger can never be avoided anyway: life is even mortally dangerous... Even fatal. At the end of life.
Robert Heinlein.

One dishonest accountant is worse than an enemy army.
Napoleon I Bonaparte.

In order to learn to tell the truth to people, you need to learn to tell it to yourself.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that it asks and desires only one thing - the free right to be born. The sun does not need an explanatory inscription - it is already distinguished from darkness.
T. Payne.

An honest man can be persecuted, but not dishonored.
F. Voltaire.

There is a part of me that sincerely believes that honesty is, as school teachers like to say, “the best policy” - and in all cases. She saves me from being “exposed”...
Stephen Fry.

Only the truly truthful is unshakable, like a rock.
Ludwig van Beethoven.

Being chronically honest is like racing in sandpaper underpants.
Terry Pratchett.

Making promises and not keeping them means, perhaps, a clever person, but, of course, a dishonest person.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

We often don’t tell the truth so as not to hear it ourselves.
Publilius Syrus.

Not saying enough when the only person who can help you is in front of you is not only dishonest, it’s stupid.
Sergei Lukyanenko.

Honesty is the vanity of the poor.
Andrey Petrilin.

Man's only duty on earth is the truth of the whole being.
Marina Tsvetaeva.

If a person who lives honestly among honest people who respect him deserves attention and support, then a person who remains honest among the most notorious scoundrels deserves special attention and support.
Eugene Xu.

To be an honest person for everyone means to live for the good of the common, to sacrifice personal interest to the common.
Nikolai Platonovich Ogarev.

All who stand for the truth strive for the same goal.
A. Barbusse.

Please stop. Even if it hurts me, be honest with me for a second and tell me the truth.
Serena van der Woodsen.

Sincerity is the mother of truth and the sign of an honest person.
Denis Diderot.

Truth is a quality that is extremely rare in epitaphs.
G. Thoreau.

There is nothing more beautiful in the world than an honest person.
R. Rolland.

Truth is our most precious asset. Let's treat her with care.
Mark Twain.

Truth is beyond pity.
M. Gorky.

Actions that define a person as honest must only be fair and kind. Honesty does not mean telling the truth. This is the ability to be able to protect it.
Akif Akhmedov.

Where a person does not see a threat to his benefit, he can easily be both honest and humane.
Vikenty Veresaev.

Honest people are difficult to deal with.
E.E. Talu.

Honesty will outlive the human race.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.

Every person is inclined to suspect at least one fundamental virtue: I, for example, consider myself one of the few honest people I know.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald.

No, this is how it is everywhere: people kill each other. Only they usually come up with some stupid reasons for this, like the fact that you pray to the Lord differently from me, so you must die... It’s much more honest to say: I need your money, either you give it to me, or you die!
Igor Pronin.

Absolute honesty in presentation helps maximize clarity.
P. Chalmos.

The truth is like a bitter drink, unpleasant to the taste, but restoring health.
O. Balzac.

Honesty is the best habit.
Indian wisdom.

Honest people love women, cheaters adore them.
P. Beaumarchais

Although he is a thief, he is a selfless and honest person.
Maxim Podberezovikov.

Decency and honesty are too expensive gifts. And you shouldn’t expect them from cheap people.
Woody Allen.

In our great democratic society there is still an opinion that a stupid person is for the most part more honest than an intelligent person, and our politicians, using this prejudice to their advantage, pretend to be even more stupid than they were born.
Bertrand Russell.

Living honestly is profitable: your conscience is clear, you sleep peacefully, and you are not ashamed of your life. The only pity is that dishonest businessmen and crooks do not understand this, paving the way to hell with vile deeds.
Vladimir Eduardovich Kazaryan.

It's damn hard to tell everything honestly.
Haruki Murakami.

Honesty beautifies any title.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

If we see filth, it means it is in us. Like connects with like. If I say: here goes the thief, it means I myself stole, if not a thousand dollars, then a nail. Don't judge people - look at yourself.
Peter Mamonov.

You just have to start doing something to understand how few honest, decent people there are.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.

An honest person will not lie to just anyone.
Igor Karpov.

The more I try to be honest, the deeper the right words sink into darkness.
Haruki Murakami.

He was not born rich, and in this world, as I have learned in my time, you cannot earn wealth through good deeds.
Jorah Mormont.

A pure, sincere, fiery and tireless soul is a temple in which it is easiest to hear revealed truths.
D. Mazzini.

Not every force stands for truth, but every truth declares itself by force.
MM. Prishvin.

Honesty offends people the minute it harms them, but then they admire it and extol it.
Pliny the Younger.

You cannot frivolously allow your conscience to be unapproachable. After all, little by little you can reach such an extreme as honesty in politics.
Victor Hugo.

To be honest, one must add an enlightened mind to the nobility of the soul. He in whom these various gifts of nature are united is always guided by the compass of social benefit.
K. Helvetius.

The man who says: “Goodbye, my love!” - is inevitably a hypocrite. An honest person will say this: “Goodbye... sorry, I forgot your name.”
Absalom the Underwater.

Honesty is often reckless.
Louis Aragon.

If I live honestly, then I seem to be protected: I am responsible for myself, for what I do, and for my words.
Sergey Bodrov.

The only honest person in the world is you.

The most important thing I always want to achieve is to keep my word to someone.
Richard Branson.

The first condition for rapprochement is sincerity.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin.

Scoundrels are successful in their affairs because they treat honest people as if they were scoundrels, and honest people treat scoundrels as if they were honest people.
V. G. Belinsky.

Honesty, integrity and kindness. If someone does not have at least one of these qualities, he is half-human.
Grigory Leps.

Not everyone can tell the truth!
Maksim Gorky.

First of all, you need to be honest with yourself.
Anatoly Rakhmatov.

An intelligent, honest and straightforward person may well fall into a trap: it will not occur to him that someone would think of catching him in a mistake and turning him into a laughing stock. Trustfulness lulls caution in him, and stupid jokers take advantage of this. Even worse for those who try to play a trick on him a second time: such a person can only be deceived once.
Jean de La Bruyère.

I play fair and play to win. If I lose, I take medication.
Robert James Fisher.

“Sometimes it’s hard to keep the law,” said the father. - Especially if you want everything to be fair.
John Steinbeck.

Honesty has such a property that it requires compliance even with promises made to the enemy.
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano.

An honest person can maintain his dignity in any situation.
E. Xu.

You are in vain boasting that you remained honest, incorruptible and in disgrace: many who really did not sell are those who were not bought.
Igor Guberman.

Being honest is beneficial, but some people feel that it is not beneficial enough.
Frank Hubbard.

In order to say clearly what you have to say, speak sincerely, and in order to speak sincerely, speak as the thought came to you.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.

True, like the sun, it can become clouded, but only for a while.
K. Bovey.

You have to be a little bit of a liar to tell stories correctly. Too much truth and the facts get mixed up and mixed up. Too much honesty and it will sound insincere.
Patrick Rothfuss.

The truth rarely seems believable.
A. Maurois.

Extreme fatigue encourages a person to speak honestly without feeling embarrassed.
Dan Simmons.

Only the complete truth is good. Half-truths are worthless.
Stefan Zweig.

Whoever wants to honestly go through his life must keep in mind in his youth that someday he will be an old man, and in old age remember that he, too, was once young.
Johnson S.

Truthfulness is the scale of friendship.
I. Gaman.

Even in trifles one must be truthful!
Maksim Gorky.

Living truth lives and, like all living things, makes its way, like a spring green sprout among the trash.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin.

Defeat is a school from which the truth always emerges stronger.
G. Beecher.

It would have been more honest for him to tell me right away that the boat was sinking before inviting me for a ride.
Clive Staples Lewis.

Happiness does not lie in any kind of pleasure, but only in the honest and noble.
Thomas More.

One must have the courage to look the unvarnished bitter truth straight in the face.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

An honest American is one who is sold once in his life. He sets his own price, gets paid and then becomes incorruptible.
Sergey Dovlatov.

It’s good to be honest only because people believe you when you lie.
Aleksey Ivanov.

They say truth is stranger than fiction: for most people it is - they encounter it less often.
Bernard Show.

A salesman can be paid for his honesty.
Leszek Kumor.

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, and does not stand in the way of sinners, and does not sit in the seat of the wicked.

The louder he spoke of his honesty, the more carefully we counted the tablespoons.
Ralph Emerson.

Nowadays, when they say about a person that he knows how to live, they usually mean that he is not particularly honest.
George Saville Halifax.

Sincerity is the source of all genius.
L. Berne.

The source of our faith and hope is truth.
A. Barbusse.

Truth is militant, it fights not only against untruth, but also against certain people who spread it.
B. Brecht.

It is difficult for a heart that is confident in its own honesty to understand the deceit of others.
Richard Sheridan.

What does honesty mean in an area of ​​life like sex? If you demand that everything in sex be fair, then it’s better for people to immediately multiply like mushrooms. You couldn't be more honest.
Haruki Murakami.

Truly honest people are those who are well aware of their shortcomings and openly admit them.
F. La Rochefoucauld.

Honesty is, of course, good, but what do you do when you are asked a question that you cannot answer truthfully?
Sarah Dessen.

Don't be content with a quiet, peaceful life! Fight for the ideal! Even if it is quixotic, your efforts will not be in vain. When faced with the pain of others, do not pass by, when you meet a hungry person, understand that it is your duty to ease his suffering, when you see someone being mistreated because he has a different skin color, paint your skin the same color. To those who will claim that only their God exists, remind them that it was He who created the colorful world and endowed it with infinite variety. Take care of your own and others’ dignity. Injustice and evil spread when good people give up. True abomination lies in pretense and tolerance of meanness.
Mark Levy.

Honesty is the best defense and the best attack.
Francis Underwood.

Be honest every now and then and you'll have an excellent alibi.
Andre Prevost.

I respect honesty in people. But over time, I realized that a woman still needs fox habits.
Anna Alekseevna Snatkina.

Everything must be fair - or not at all.
Olga Gromyko.

Straightforwardness adorns all the feelings it accompanies.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

There is no need to deceive yourself with lies. It is harmful.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

No honest person has ever hidden anything on purpose.
Ernst Simon Bloch.

The ranks begin - sincerity ceases.
Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin.

Sometimes even honest people become part of the deception.
James Clemens.

Honesty is no less important to us than it is a necessity to others.
Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus).

Give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, and I will find in them something for which to hang him.
Armand Jean du Plessis (Cardinal Richelieu).

His honesty was impeccable, and this in that age when the military so easily entered into transactions with faith and conscience, lovers - with the stern scrupulousness characteristic of our time, and the poor - with the seventh commandment of the Lord. In a word, Athos was a very extraordinary person.
Alexandr Duma.

Truthfulness is the breath of life, it is the basis of all dignity.
T. Dreiser.

Honest people never suspect anything wrong, because they themselves are not capable of committing evil, which is why they are easily fooled by the first swindler they meet. It is unusually easy and extremely unworthy to deceive them; an insolent rogue who succeeds in this occupation only humiliates himself, without adding anything to his own vicious glory.
Marquis de Sade.

Excessive honesty borders on stupidity.
Japanese proverb.

Living happily means living honestly.

Take as your motto the expression “Honesty is the best policy” and follow it in deeds, words and thoughts.
Louisa May Alcott.

All people are the same in essence, all are the same by birth, the nobler is the one who is honest by nature.
Seneca.

If you want to act honestly, take into account and believe only the public interest. Self-interest is often misleading.
Claude Adrian Helvetius.

An honest life is the only religion.

Whoever obliges himself to say everything without concealment will also oblige himself not to do what he needs to remain silent about.
Michel de Montaigne.

You meet honest rich people no more often than you meet chickens with teeth.
Robert Harris.

Actually, now that no one was looking at me and, I dare hope, did not read my thoughts, I could leave this condescending tone, kick away the inner skeptic, hastily created once from the viscous clay of childhood disappointments specifically to simplify communications with the outside world, and honestly admit: in fact, I am dying from curiosity and impatience.
Max Fry.

When you know that you lived honestly, life seems better and easier.
M.I. Kalinin.

He who does not know the truth is simply a fool. But whoever knows it and calls it a lie is a criminal.
B. Brecht.

Sincerity in small doses is dangerous; in large ones it is deadly.
Oscar Wilde.

If you are honest, sooner or later you will come into conflict with your value system, and then you will have to separate what is right from what is permitted.
Tom Robbins.

Honesty is when you think to say one thing, but tell the truth.
Alexander Perlyuk.

Your head is not hanging on his tongue. When it is cut off, it will not fall.
Gleb Pakulov.

If the truth does not tell us what we should do, then it will always tell us what we should not do or should stop doing.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.

Honesty is not the best answer, at least not for the time being.
Danielle Steele.

The truth catches up with liars and perjurers.
Heraclitus.

Truth, legality, virtue, justice, meekness - all this can be combined in the concept of “honesty”.
Quintilian.

I don't play games, I always say directly what's on my mind. Ostentatious shyness is for fools. If a man is intimidated by your honesty, then he is not the one you need.
Mila Kunis.

Honesty is a wonderful concept. It's a pity that it has nothing to do with the war.
Orson Scott Card.

It is better to tell the truth unsuccessfully than to remain silent about it if the matter is serious.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

A bare statement is not necessarily the bare truth.
D. Prentice.

I have not noticed that people's honesty increases with their wealth.
Thomas Jefferson.

To tell the truth, a statesman must speak. To lie, he only needs to remain silent.
Saint John Pers.

I tend to think that if you are honest with yourself about what you want from life, life will give it to you.

Too honest to live, too noble to lie.
George Martin.

The people have the right to the truth, just as they have the right to life, freedom, and the struggle for happiness.
F. Norris.

Men are too honest: they only tell the one they love that they love them - even to the point of marriage!
Marina Tsvetaeva.

An honest person is everyone's enemy.
Honore de Balzac.

Submission to the truth, regardless of personal interests and desires, is all honesty, all morality.
Ya.Ya. Ogarev.

You find me perhaps uninteresting because I am sincere.
Robert Walser.

If we are not afraid to speak even the bitter and difficult truth directly, we will certainly and unconditionally learn to overcome each and every difficulty.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

From childhood we are taught that we need to be honest and decent, to achieve everything through work and ability, but in reality it turns out that those who follow this are precisely complete losers in life, and those who achieve everything are those who lie, are hypocritical, and sleep with whomever he needs and goes to his goal over the corpses.
Oleg Roy.

An honest person almost always speaks fairly.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

What is acquired dishonestly will go to waste.
Gnaeus Naevius.

Nudity is the best adornment of truth.
T. Fuller.

I was in a very ordinary situation - I wanted to be honest and could not get rid of regrets that this honesty was costing me too much.
Robertson Davis.

One must be able to recognize evil fearlessly in order to fight it more firmly.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

No one is as adept at approaching honesty as scammers.
Leonid Sukhorukov.

With an honest husband, the wife herself becomes honest.
Sachs Hans.

It is not necessary to be kind: it is enough to be honest and attentive.
Absalom the Underwater.

A person in love with truth does not need to be a poet or great. Without any effort on his part, he is both a poet and great.
J. Renard.

Good morals are the rewards of an honest man.
G.R. Derzhavin.

A brilliant story is rarely completely true.
S. Johnson.

Where there is honor, there is honesty.
Aishek Noram.

An honest person will always find an even more honest person who will shame him.
"Pshekruj."

Honesty and decency are already half of happiness.
E. Zola.

The truth, even if cruelly expressed, should not be scary to anyone.
ME AND. Pirogov.

Honesty is even more valuable to decent people than learning to educated people.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Time is an honest man, as the Italians say, and they always tell the truth, so time will show me who wishes me harm and who wishes me good.
Pierre Beaumarchais.

Tell me, just honestly...
- You don't have to continue.
Absalom the Underwater.

If someone, out of respect for worthy people, renounces lust, serves his parents to the point of exhaustion, the sovereign to the point of self-sacrifice, and is honest in his words in relations with friends, then I, of course, will call him a scientist, even if others recognize him as ignorant.
Zi Xia (disciple of Confucius).

If a person did not have the opportunity to steal, this does not mean that he is honest.
Criswell Millie.

Well, as far as love is concerned... Here I can advise you one thing: always be honest. Honesty and justice are your main tools, only with their help will you be able to win someone’s heart and earn someone’s forgiveness.
Christopher Paolini.

The incorruptible eye of an honest man always worries scammers.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

He who does not tell the truth about himself cannot speak it about others.
Virginia Woolf.

If you hide the truth and bury it in the ground, it will certainly grow and acquire such power that one day, when it breaks out, it will sweep away everything in its path.
E. Zola.

Only the pure can defeat the dishonest.
S. Vurgun.

The truly honest person is the one who always asks himself if he is honest enough.
Titus Maccius Plautus.

Be honest. You can lie to anyone, even me. But you must always answer to yourself. It's simple. Somewhere in the back of your head you will always feel whether what you are doing is right or not. Measured line with marks. Does your action bring you closer to the shining core or, conversely, moves you away from it. Morality is relative, they will tell you. This is true. And this steel rod, shining, cold and merciless, which sticks out in the back of your head - it will tell the truth.
Shimun Wrocek.

Honesty and accuracy are impediments to rhetoric and are unsuitable for debate.
Martin Page.

An increase in claims and pretensions while the demand for honor and honesty falls.
Evgeny Khankin.

Always prefer a short but honest life to a long but shameful life.
Epictetus.

My greatest achievement is that I lived my life honestly. I hope I can be called a decent person. And this is more important to me than my life in art.
Fedor Sergeevich Bondarchuk.

Honesty is the simplest expression of the principle of truth.
Samuel Smiles.

Honesty does not provide salvation. But it leads to him.

Honesty is the greatest gamble.
Neil Caffrey.

There is no fear in truth. Truth and fear are incompatible.
D.S. Likhachev.

The only thing that every honest person should be guided in his actions is whether what he does is fair or unfair, and whether it is the act of a good or evil person.
Socrates.

Honesty is when you want to say one thing, but you tell the truth.
Guy Julius Orlovsky.

You need to be truthful in everything, even when it comes to your homeland. Every citizen is obliged to die for his Motherland, but one can never be obliged to lie in the name of the Motherland.
C. Montesquieu.

Will there ever be a time when all people will live with dignity? Honestly! Not honestly for others, not for appearances, but for yourself? And so that the highest judge, the chief prosecutor for everyone would be himself?
Albert Likhanov.

Honesty alone is not enough to be right and useful; We also need consistency in ideas.
Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky.

Decency is inseparable from honesty.

We are poor because we are honest.
Indian proverb.

It takes a lot of inner honesty to discover its lack in oneself.
Absalom the Underwater.

You really need it, right? Okay, I'll tell you the truth. The whole truth is that the truth is nonsense. We live in a world that is saturated with lies. I've tried to live my whole life honestly, and look at me. If you want to change something in your life, you must resort to cunning. Do you want to please the kids at school? Deceive. Lie about where you are from, who you are, what you have. And they will believe you. Because for the most part, they are stupid. Actually, one thing you have to remember after 5th grade in high school is that in our society, winners always cheat and liars always win.

You will not get sharp criticism from a person until you make him angry; The harsh truth is always expressed with bitterness.
G. Thoreau.

Truth requires perseverance: one must stand for the truth or hang on a cross; a person moves towards the truth. The truth must be adhered to - the truth must be sought.
M. M. Prishvin.

What is honest is that there is no light hidden. And what brings evil hides in the darkness.
Valentin Pikul.

I don't know what's the point of being good. What's the point of being human? Since you are living, then live as a human being, not as a caterpillar. I don’t know, maybe you need to be good for yourself, maybe for others. I do not refuse to fight, only I will fight honestly, and if I myself use meanness, then I will no longer have to fight with scoundrels, but for my place among them.
Daniil Granin.

If you want to be happy all your life, be an honest person.
Thomas Fuller.

He who is dishonest in the smallest things will soon lose all dignity altogether.
Ivan Efremov.

An honest poor man can sometimes forget about his poverty.
An honest rich man never forgets about his wealth.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton.

Honesty and accuracy are twins.
C. Simmons.

There is always a price to be paid for believing in human honesty.
Sergei Lukyanenko.

I can't stand honesty. For the person himself, being honest is wonderful, but for those around him, it is a complete nightmare. However, honesty is admirable.
Larry Kelly.

Honesty without knowledge is weak and meaningless, and knowledge without honesty is very dangerous.
Samuel Johnson.

I admire you. You say what you mean and you don't care who you offend. Honesty and beauty are a combination that is irresistible.
Jeanne Kalogridis.

People who are supposedly noble hide their shortcomings both from others and from themselves, but truly noble people are well aware of them and openly declare them.
F. La Rochefoucauld.

It is not at all necessary to always say exactly what you think, that would be stupid, but whatever you say must correspond to your thoughts; otherwise it is a malicious deception.
Michel de Montaigne.

If at least one person on earth becomes completely honest with himself, lies will completely leave the planet.
Absalom the Underwater.

There are people who are of the opinion that truth is harmless only in diluted form.
O. Holmes.

What is honesty? Honesty is an open, sincere attitude. Dishonesty is a secret, hidden attitude.
A. S. Makarenko.

It is more fitting for a morally good person to show his honesty.
Honore de Balzac.

Ignorance of the truth does not prevent a person from being honest.
Absalom the Underwater.

The truth should not depend on who it is to serve.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

If it is not always possible to tell the truth, then it does not follow that one must lie. I can't always say what I feel and think, but that doesn't mean I have to or should say what I don't feel or think.
V. Liebknecht.

There can be no honesty about anything. It is not honesty if it is partial.
Yulian Semyonov.

Has anyone met an honest man who has blue eyes?
Ivan Vasilyevich Grozny.

You don't have to know much about human nature to understand that honesty is useless and often even destructive.
John Christopher.

You are a terrible person.
- Just honest. This world is terrible.
George Martin.

An honest and dishonest person is known not only by what they do, but also by what they desire.
Democritus

Truth and an honest life are the goal of my thoughts.
Horace.

Honest people always have the bad habit of lowering their eyes in shame before impudence and impudent meanness.
Belinsky V. G.

Sometimes you have to choose: be kind or honest. Sometimes a person cannot be both.
Cassandra Clare.

The capacity for indignation is the most important part of the armor of every honest man.
D. Lowell.

The further I went, the happier I became with the thought that I had overcome this grave temptation. I thought that I remained an honest person, that I had a strong will, that I, like a bright beacon, towered above the muddy human sea, where the wrecks of shipwrecks floated, and this filled me with pride.
Knut Hamsun.

Don’t think that speaking and doing the truth was necessary only in important matters. You must always speak and do the truth, and do not allow yourself to lie even in the most empty matters. It is not important that great or small evil will come from your untruth, but it is also expensive to never defile yourself with lies.
D. N. Tolstoy.

A limited, honest person often sees through all the tricks of the subtlest businessmen.
Goethe I.

The materialist has only faith in man.
Leszek Kumor.

The power of honesty is so great that we value it even among the enemy.

Truth is the air without which you cannot breathe.
I. S. Turgenev.

An honest liar will never hide the truth; he always mixes it with his own lies.
Lassila Mayu.

Truth approaches a person in a sense of strength and appears at the moment of the decision to fight: to fight for the truth, to stand for the truth. Not every force stands for the truth, but the truth always communicates itself by force.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin.

A person is honest when his actions tend to the common good.
K. Helvetius.

The more honest a person is, the less he suspects others of dishonesty; a low soul always presupposes the lowest motives in noble deeds.
Marcus Tullius Cicero.

There is a false kind of honesty that assumes that nothing should remain hidden, that everything should be said, expressed and communicated. Such frankness can be very destructive. And even if it does not bring direct harm, it emasculates relationships, turning them into superficial, empty and often very painful. When, in an attempt to get rid of loneliness, we create relationships without boundaries, we can suffocate in the too close space of such intimacy. It is necessary to protect the “holy of holies” of one’s own heart from uninvited intrusions, not only for the sake of one’s own safety, but also for the benefit of a loved one. Just as words lose their power if they are not born from the depths of silence, so openness loses its value when there is no place for the innermost.
Henry Nouwen.

There is little merit if a person is honest only because no one is trying to bribe him.
Cicero.

Truth means the victory of conscience in a person.
M. M. Prishvin.

No matter how rare truth is, its supply always exceeds demand.
G. Shaw.

Probably, questions such as what beauty is, how to become happy, are too boring and difficult for me, and therefore I am inclined to other criteria. Such, for example, as justice, honesty, universality.
Haruki Murakami.

In a fair fight, the crook wins.
Gennady Malkin.

Faith in man has its heresies and schisms.
Leszek Kumor.

Taking part in someone else's life, an honest person tries to preserve it.
Absalom the Underwater.

Honesty is not only the first step to greatness, it is greatness itself.
K. Bovey.

Looking for honesty in big politics is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Konstantin Kushner.

Not only can we afford the truth, moreover, we only need it alone.
I. Becher.

Honesty is wealth, but whoever owns it is doomed to poverty.
M. Arsanis.

Tell the truth and you will be original.
A.V. Vampilov.

For our honesty, we can be forgiven for almost anything: for example, insufficiently professional acting, and even insufficiently professional poetry. There are many examples of this. But when honesty disappears, nothing is forgiven.
Victor Tsoi.

The truth is always somewhat offensive, but it is also always useful.
M. Gorky.

A person should be honest by nature, not by circumstance.
Marcus Aurelius.

Honesty and selflessness as cultural values ​​are becoming museum rarities.
Konstantin Kushner.

We are obliged to tell the truth, but no one forces us to be honest.
Terry Pratchett.

All my efforts boiled down to reducing people's stupidity and increasing their honesty.
Voltaire (Marie Francois Arouet).

The faithful do not need honesty, we need order.
Aishek Noram.

Honesty is the best policy.
English proverb.

My father always says: “Be honest and do not tolerate deception.”
Munna bro.

There is, perhaps, not a single person in the world who, if given the opportunity to become a swindler for a thousand thalers, would not prefer to remain an honest person for half that amount.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.

Sincerity is a difficult and very delicate matter; it requires wisdom and great emotional tact.
V.V. Veresaev.

My intentions are always honest. For me.
Lydia Lunch.

If you're honest, don't hang around with the dishonest, don't rub yourself near the soot - you'll get dirty yourself.
Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky.

Perhaps I will meet a centaur, or a dragon, or even an honest man.
Dexter Morgan.

It doesn’t matter whether you are strong or not, but honesty is honesty.
William Golding.

We, if we are prompted to be honest men not by the desire for valor, but by this or that benefit and benefit, are cunning, not honest.
Marcus Tullius Cicero.

The first sign of corruption of social morals is the disappearance of truth, for truthfulness lies at the basis of all virtue.
M. Montaigne.

Honest people can never believe in evil that they themselves are not capable of creating; That’s why the first swindler he comes across easily deceives them and that’s why it’s so simple, but so humiliating, to deceive them.
Marquis de Sade.

It's hard to be smart and sincere at the same time, especially in feelings...
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov.

Hiding things from friends is dangerous; but it’s even more dangerous not to hide anything from them.
Jean de Lafontaine.

In time, all the truth will come to light.
Menander.

He who is truthful to himself and others and always remains so has the best quality of the greatest talents.
I. Goethe.

No one despises an honest woman more than an honest woman.
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva.

Telling the truth is like lighting a match: it may give you light, but it can also set the whole world on fire around you...
Erica Strange.

I was somewhat surprised by the words of my friend, who was involved in cosmology and astronomy. He was going to speak on the radio and was thinking about how to explain the practical value of his work. I said that it simply does not exist. “Yes, but then we won’t get financial support for further research,” he replied. I think this is unfair. If you are a scientist, you have to explain to people what you are doing. And if they decide not to fund your research, well, that's their right.
Richard Feynman.

When robbery occurs in broad daylight with the permission of the law, as is the case today, an honest act or restitution is done underground.
Ayn Rand.

Honesty is the best and at the same time the most justified course of action.
John Lubbock.

Nothing is so beautiful to the eye as truth is to the mind; nothing is as ugly and irreconcilable with reason as a lie.
D. Locke.

Only the truth, no matter how hard it is, is easy.
A. Blok.

If you don't know how to be honest, then the price to pay for it is pain and suffering - in any case.
Jacque Fresco.

It is better to be an honest sinner than a pious deceiver.
Finnish proverb.

People go through life how they earn money: some honestly, others steal.
Absalom the Underwater.

Honesty is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman.
Joseph Pulitzer.

For some reason, no one teaches us taste, and they teach us a lot, tediously, habitually, according to an old and completely decrepit recipe: stealing is not good, we must live honestly, righteously, respect our elders; but the mentors and moralists themselves most often steal more than others and eat from a separate trough, completely rejecting the morality that is fed to people from the public platform. The thief, who demands honesty from others, is a long-standing, but not outdated acquisition of humanity in our days, cheerfully rising in our new field. And he, the thief, desperately needs honest people, troops of honest and decent people, high morality behind which he could hide, like behind a painted fence, otherwise, being a thief among thieves, he will die of hunger and there will be no one to educate him.
Victor Astafiev.

Sincerity is sincerity. Few people have this quality.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld.

Honesty is desirable, but not always wise.
Hercule Poirot.

Power bestows many things on a person, but honesty and integrity are rarely among its gifts.
Robert Harris.

The truth sometimes bends, but never breaks, and floats on top of lies like oil on top of water.
M. Cervantes.

From childhood, a person must think about everything he sees, suffer from dishonesty, fight lies and must be honest, first of all, to himself.
Jose Marti.

A person who is ashamed has an inherent desire to live honestly.
Benedict Spinoza.

War turns many honest people into thieves.
George Martin.