Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base.

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

Living on hypocrisy is not a healthy diet for patriots.

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.

Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.

Nature doesn't cheat - people do.

Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an erroneous belief without by-and-by having an erroneous life. I believe the one thing naturally begets the other.

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.