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Honesty is that qualitative character, virtue, or psychological disposition, which propagates truth and sincerity as opposed to falsehood and deceit. Honesty is speaking truth and creating trust in minds of others. This includes all varieties of communication, both verbal and non-verbal. Honesty implies a lack of deceit. A statement can be strictly true and still be dishonest if the intention of the statement is to deceive its audience. Similarly, a falsehood can be spoken honestly if the speaker actually believes it to be true. Conversely, dishonesty can be defined simply as behavior that is performed with intent to deceive. Lying by commission, lying by omission, fraud, and plagiarism are all examples of this sort of behavior. Other examples can be doing one thing and telling the other, as if you are hiding something.

Honesty is typically considered virtuous behavior, and has strong positive connotations in most situations.

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review by Valsviews. November 08, 2009

TRUTHS, LIES, AND HUMAN RELATIONS

Truths and lies are strange bedfellows. They respectively characterize honesty and dishonesty; and are amongst the closest allies of right and wrong. All these prescribe good and bad, worthy and unworthy, as well as pleasant and unpleasant. More than anything else, they influence our interdependences and relations. The philosophy of truths and lies are a lot deeper than we often envisage. Most decisions regarding them are based on peripheral outlooks. That is why the existence of half-truths is … more

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review by dalydose. October 05, 2010

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“Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.” – William Shakespeare Who doesn’t understand the most basic virtue of honesty? It has been taught to seemingly every child growing up in every culture throughout time? In a display of my optimism (or naiveté), I tend to assume that most people WANT to tell the truth. The problem is that life doesn’t seem to encourage or incentivize honesty that much. In JD’s economics … more

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Quick Tip by Valsviews. November 08, 2009

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The old adage: "Honesty is the best policy" has been tested and trusted. It is evergreen; and manifests in ways you might not have imagined.

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