David Hume Quotes

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

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

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.

Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be otherwise; but, all cards cast up, he shall find it the greatest ease, the highest profit, the best pleasure, the most safety, and the noblest fame, to hold the horns of this altar, which, in all assays, can in himself protect him.

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.

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so it may appear to you... Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises, being assured that they will gain strength by exercise ... and that exercise will make them habitual.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.

If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.

You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

There is no greater virtue than honesty.