Quotes about Integrity

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to. —C. S. Lewis

True seekers are different. On meeting them you feel their purpose, their energy, their integrity, their idealism, and their desire to close in on an answer. Something in life has awakened questions, has made them aware of a sense of need, has forced them to consider where they are in life. They have become seekers because something has spurred their quest for meaning, and they have to find an answer.

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue." Rochefoucauld's maxim

Either we may seek to conform our desires to the truth, which leads to conviction, or we may seek to conform the truth to our desires, which leads to evasion.

This means that, bad though it is and dangerous though its slipway may prove, there is a sense in which hypocrisy may be preferable to wickedness. Hypocrisy still cares enough about virtue to want to pretend to be virtuous, or at least it recognizes that the society around still prizes virtue enough to make it worth flattering.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance.