Quotes about Integrity

Socrates: "The corruption of the best things are the worst things." Or, "The best, when corrupted, become the worst." As one of your English poets has said, "Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

For any act to be morally right, three things are necessary: (1) right act, (2) right motive, and (3) right circumstances. If any one of these factors is not right, the act is wrong.

The ultimate reason we must become holy is that that is the only way to become real.

First, you must read it, not as you read other books, but slowly and thoughtfully (that is why I made it very short) and above all prayerfully, that is, under the eye of God, in the presence of Truth and therefore in absolute honesty. Second, you must actually do it, not just read about doing it, think about doing it, understand how to do it, plan to do it, or imagine yourself doing it. It is a cookbook, not a dinner.

Disbelief is a sin, but honest unbelief is not.

Principles without facts are empty, but facts without principles are blind.

manifests a good person, a good character, a good habit, and also because good deeds gradually form good habits, good character, good persons.

Pure truth is possible, but pure falsehood is not.

Read Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard commencement address on that one.)

Hypocrisy, it is said, is "the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

But if scandal arise from truth, the scandal should be borne rather than the truth be set aside

you have nothing worth dying for, you will die. If you have nothing worth living for except mere living, you will not live.