What is the definition of honesty? How does an honest person act and do? Why is honesty important? Why is it sometimes difficult to be honest? When is honesty difficult? What is the opposite of honesty? Why is it good to be honest? Why is dishonesty not good? Is there a difference between honesty and truthfulness? Is there a different between dishonesty and lying? Were you always honest? When did you have to be dishonest? Why? Do you appreciate people being honest with you? Were there times when people have been dishonest with you or have you have been dishonest to people?
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tuan le
11/7/2011 10:46:01 am
Honesty is the quality of being honest. Honesty is very important of the life. However, in another facet of sociality, honesty isn’t appreciated. Maybe a white lie will be accepted. Furthermore, in some circumstances, people feel comfortable or less painful, sorrowful with a white lie. I appreciate person say the truth. When I was a kid, I usually lay my parent to hang out with my friend. In my opinion, the honesty includes acts and sentences. When I was studying at high school, I had a lot of trouble with my grade in class. Then, I laid my family. Nevertheless, they found out it. I feel very terrible and afraid. I thought I did a worse thing. At that point, my family didn’t say anything about problem. At one day, I regretted and came out with my parent. They just smiled and told me that whether or no, I couldn’t lie them. They would help me repair mistakes. The honesty contributes an important path to become a good person. It seems to make a belief of someone.” If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything” from MARK TWAIN. The honesty is a good quality of behavior of human beings. Tell the truth isn’t easy, but let’s try to do it. Eveyone support to do it instead hides the truth in your heart. The world will be better if every body do right thing.
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farshad
11/8/2011 03:11:57 pm
The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairnessand straightforwardness of conduct, speech, et.icntegrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guil.
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Sazhida Bowles
11/9/2011 08:06:59 am
Honesty is a quality of an individual who is always truthful. We learn how to be honest or dishonest since childhood. In my opinion, an honest person has to be honest with him or herself and with others. Sometimes it is difficult to be honest; especially with your relatives or close friends because your honest answers may hurt them. A while ago I read a book that tells if you want to hear an honest answer it is better to ask a question from your enemy than from your friend. Your enemy wouldn’t feel sympathy to you by answering honestly. In most cases, people have difficulty listening to uncomfortable truths about them. There is an old saying that truth always hurts your eyes. To be honest is a good quality because people will trust you and they wouldn’t doubt your words. People may be completely honest in what they say, but they may not be truthful about their intent. They may be honest with the intention of hurting others feelings, or making others look bad. I can’t say I am always honest, I think everyone in their lives at least once experiences being dishonest. I don’t believe there are completely honest people. I am usually dishonest in situations where I don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings. There were a lot of times where people have been dishonest with me, but I can always sense them being dishonest. I usually would stop respecting those types of people, and would try to stop associating with them.
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Tetyana D.
11/9/2011 02:42:55 pm
To be honest is good. This means that you have to say anything honestly, to do always honestly. Sometimes it is hard to be honest. I’m working in the dental office and I always have to say patients something nice, but it usually is not true. In this situations I have to be dishonesty that to be nice. Usually people are dishonesty and it makes their lives easier. Dishonest and lying are similar but lying is more stronger. I think lying is thing where people already thought about something before they want to do it. In my life I always try to be honesty but at work I can’t.
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Adila.M.A.
11/10/2011 06:36:07 am
Definition of honesty it mean that you shouldn't lie,cheat,steal etc. You have to be fair and good. An honest person acts very fair and rightly. Some people will ask that why is honesty important? It is very important because if you honest person everyone will love and respect you. Also they will trust you. Of course sometimes it is difficult to be honest. Maybe because when you have problem or difficulty it is hard to be honest.The opposite of honesty is a dishonest. It is very bad to be dishonest because everyone will hate you and they will never trust you. I think that there is not difference between honesty and truthfulness because both of them have similar meaning. In my oppinion there is no different between dishonesty and lying both of them mean bad. Yes I always was honest because it is very important to me. I never was dishonest,so I don't know anything. Of course I appreciate people that was honest with me.There were times when people have been dishonest with me ,so It made me really sad and unhappy but I never have been dishonest with people because it is very bad.
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Alina N.
11/10/2011 03:31:50 pm
Everyone wants to be honest and truthful sometimes it’s very difficult. For example when you go to the store with bad mood and salesman ask you ‘’ How are you’’, you always answered ‘’ I’m good’’ but you are not. I think in this situation you need to be dishonest not because you used to lie, just because you don’t want to tell everyone about your problems. For me it’s hard to be honest on this cause. An honest person always tells truth wherever it is. People can trust this person but most important is to be honest with yourself. Person who always lying doesn’t have any trust and respect from other people. There is nothing different between honest and truthfulness. There is nothing different between dishonesty and lying. Maybe it sound different but results are same. I want to be an honesty person and I want that people to be honest with me.
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Martha Ledbetter
11/10/2011 04:08:19 pm
What is the difinition of honesty?
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candelario h
11/10/2011 07:30:00 pm
Honesty to me it is no longer until someone lied to us. you can't to cheating on to for anyone. Honesty I fell sadly how people are abuse by lies but this can be over, becous these persons could find out and to late for tose people who lied others;to said that they are honest.Then theythey can lose who are on their side. If you search for tendersness,it isn't hard to find.You can have the love you need to live. But if you look for truthfulness,youmight just as well be so hard togive.Hnesty is such a lonely word.Honesty is hardly ever heard and mostly what I need from you.I can always find someone to said they sympathize. If I wear my heart out on my sleeve. But I don't want some pritty face to tell me pritty lies. All I wont is someone tobelive. I can find a lover,I cand find a friend, I can have security until the bitter and. Anyone can confor me with promises again.I know ,I know. When I deep inside of me don't be too concernd, I wont as for nathin wile I'm gone.But when I want sincerity, tell me where else can I turn; because you're the one I depend upon.
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Saba A.
11/11/2011 09:01:34 am
Honesty means to tell the truth. When you give your loved ones the honesty they deserve you will get more honesty in return from them. Honesty is very important in everyday life. Sometimes people can't be a honest because to a honest is hard. I think that honest people act very fair and rightly. The honesty important baceause when soneone is honest with other then all people will love him and also respect as a good person. I think that to be honest always is difficult because when people have some peoblems in life. The opposite to honest is Dishonest. To be a honest is good because you will have respect from everyone. I think that to be a dishonesty is very bad because everyone will hate you. I think that between honesty and truthfulness their is not difference it is same. Also there is not difference between dishonesty and lying. I were honest always. I have dishonesty when I have some probem or bad day. Yes I appreciate people being honest with me because I like when people is saying true. There were times when people have been dishonest with me ,so It made me really sad and unhappy but I never have been dishonest with people because it is very bad.
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Maria Pezoa
11/11/2011 02:45:50 pm
Honesty is truth. When a person is honesty say what they really think and act with truth. It is very important to be honest because people have confidence in that person. For example, in a family the honesty is the most important, but sometimes not easy to be honest. When I have a problem and people ask me how are you? I answer !! Very good !! But inside I feel very sad, but I prefer to say something nice. The difference between dishonesty and lying is very short because one of them is more stronger, but the two definitions are bad. When I was an assistant for a company in my country many times had to lie but it was my job and although I did not like had to give false explanations for the good name of the Company.
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Valentina. F.
11/12/2011 12:11:21 pm
The definition of honesty is being truthful. An honest person speaks the truth and does not cheat and do wrong. Honesty is important because it makes life better for people. Honesty is sometimes difficult because we may think at times that honesty will not be in our favor. The opposite of honesty is dishonesty. It is good to be honest because you will always have peace in your heart. Dishonesty always has consequences and a lost of trust. I believe that truthfulness is a part of honesty. Also lying is a part of dishonesty. To my shame I was not always honest. When I was younger I was dishonest with a lady I knew to be accepted by her. I do appreciate it when people are honest with me. There were times when people were dishonest with me, but I try not to think about it because I forgave them.
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Valentyna B
11/12/2011 06:05:35 pm
Honesty is the quality of being honest. Honest people do not lie , cheat ,or steal . Also , honest people always say the truth . Honesty is important because it builds trust in our friendship , in our relationship with spouse ,kids , and parents . For example , if your friends know that you are honest , they will trust you ,they will help you if you need help , and they will ask you for help because they know , you are honest . I know that honest some times hurts , and it is hard to be honest . We have to feel , when honest will hurt and try to be honest ,but be very careful . For instance , when we want to say something honest to our kids , we have to think before , to not hurt them ,but still be honest . The antonym of honesty is dishonesty . It is not good to be dishonest because people will not believe you and trust you . Dishonest can not build all those important things which are build with honest . Honesty and truthfulness are very close to each other , and they can not be separated . I think dishonesty and lie go together too , because dishonest people lie very often . I try to be honest in my life , but when I see that it will hurt someone I try to say nothing . For example , I last one of my friend because I had learned something about her husband . I new , if I will tell it to her , she can brake their marriage . She already had a daughter with him on that time , and I preferred to say noting , but just stop our friendship . I know they live together by now , but if was honest with her about her husband , I could brake her life . I think I did right , because they moved very soon after it happened , and I never haven’t see her again for more then ten years . I want people to be honest with me and always appreciate it . If I will have the same situation as my friend , I want my husband to be honest with me , but not my friend . It is very sad , but dishonest in our life is very common . Even though it is not easy to be honest , we have to do our best to be honest . Honest will make us better people .
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Saeideh B.
11/13/2011 09:01:30 am
Honesty can have many definitions. The main definition of honesty that everybody thinks of is usually telling the truth. Honesty can also be having the career you really like or doing the activities you enjoy in your life because you're being honest with yourself. Honesty is important because it can hurt someone but usually it helps because it's for their own good. Sometimes finding out the truth and being honest can be hard but it will be good after a while. The opposite of honesty is dishonesty and it's bad. Being honest can make people sad but dishonesty will make them more sad eventually. There is a difference between honesty and truthfulness or between dishonesty and lying. I tried to be honest most of the times but most of the people lied sometimes in life. I appreciate when people are honest to me because honesty is better than lying. Sometimes I had to lie but I just told one lie because if you start with one lie then you have to keep lying to cover your last lie.
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Zaida C.
11/13/2011 09:17:53 am
The honesty is a human quality to say the truth. When someone is able to say the truth and is sincere at his actions, it is an honest person. The honesty is important because we always must say the truth to others and to be honest with ourselves to have a quite life. Sometimes is difficult to be honesty because the truth can hurt to others. The opposite of honesty is dishonesty. The dishonesty is saying lies and when someone is not a sincere person. In my opinion, it is good to be honest because our family and friends can consider us like a sincere person and our relationships are lasting. The dishonesty is not good because it always gives us problem with other and we can’t feel good with ourselves. According with my dictionary, the words honesty and truthfulness have similar definitions. Also, there is no difference between dishonesty and lying. I always tried to be honest, but sometimes I had situations that I don’t want to hurt someone, so finally I decided to say the truth and to be honest. I appreciate when the people is honest with me because I can consider them like my friends. Once someone dishonest with me, but I would not like to share it, because it was a bad experience.
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inna k.
11/13/2011 09:32:56 am
Being a true honest person is being able to think, do, say and feel the same thing. If you think or feel something and you don't act accordingly, you're not being true to yourself and to others. You'll never regret being honest. It's been said that honesty is the best policy. It sounds like the simplest thing in the world, but being truly honest with others and with yourself can be a real challenge.Being sensitive of other people's feelings, and facing uncomfortable truths about yourself usually requires lots of patience, and hard work.An example of honesty is telling the truth even after doing something wrong.Honesty is an important attribute because it is one of the ways that people judge you. If you cannot be considered as being honest, you will not have good business relationships, good friends, or perhaps even a good life.I am an honest person but sometimes I have to be dishonest with my frieds because I don't want to hurt their felings.But I dont think thats lying...
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mykola k.
11/13/2011 09:47:06 am
Honesty is important so that people will believe what you say. If you are known to be honest about all things then when you tell someone something they are more apt to believe you. Being known as an honest person is one of the highest honors you can acheive in your life time.Its very important to be honest, when you are not honest with someone especially if its something important they may never believe you when you are actually being honest because you were not honest to them in the past.I've always tried to be honest with my children because I believe that one day they will find out the truth. And when they do, do I want them to wonder why I didn't tell them the truth? For example my children always knew that the tooth fairy is a game, that there is no Easter bunny, that Santa Claus is a nice story, etc. I don't feel like I've ruined their fun because I haven't excluded those elements in their lives, but I haven't misled them into believing that they are real.I never taught my children that Santa was real,because all their lives I have taught them that Jesus is real. What if, when they find out that Santa is fake, they'd start wondering whether Jesus is fake? That's been my reason for trying to be as honest as possible with my own children.And my friends...
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Alex K.
11/13/2011 10:06:17 am
The honesty is the avoidance of the deception. This is a real reflection of reality, without any distortion. A honest person doesn't allow the lies. A honesty is very important, because nobody wants to be deceived. But, sometimes it happens that people want to be cheated. This applies to those cases when the truth can hurt a person's psyche. Sometimes an honest person has to tell a lie so as to save the situation. It's difficult for the honest person, because he can not lie. For a honest person is not easy to live in this world. Many people don't like to hear the truth about himself, but they prefer to have honest friends than mendacious. In my country there is a proverb:”Better the bitter truth than sweet lie”. Compared with truthfulness, the definition of honesty stresses the absence of selfish motives. The person can remain honest, if he tells a lie in which he believes himself. A person can be always honest to God only. I always hope that people want to be honest with me. Although, I have not once been deceived, and I couldn't be honest always.
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Esmaeil M
11/13/2011 10:30:50 am
In America, lying is a very bad thing specially for politicmen and important people. The definition of honesty is telling the truth and to be upfront. An honest person is always honest and always tell the truth even if it's bad for himself/herself. Honesty is important because if you sometimes tell a lie after that nobody won't believe you. I think sometimes you can not be honest and honesty is difficult. For example, when some parents ask you a question in a middle of their arguement with their child and I know the child is right but I can not say your child is right. The opposite of honesty is lying. It is good to be honest because if you are honest then people are going to respect you and look at you as a trustworthy person. Dishonesty is not good because it can make people upset. I think there are is no difference between honesty and truthfulness. But I believe being dishonest is when you lie on purpose and you try to be a fraud and lying is just a habbit you get used to after a while and it might not be on purpose. I think I am an honest person and everytime I try to be honest. When I was a child and I didn't do my homework because I was a child and devilment. It is very important to me that everyone is honest to me and I appreciate it. There have been a few times that people have been dishonest with me but I have never been dishonest to someone.
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Maryna Kyrychenko
11/13/2011 10:44:42 am
Being honest means to seek and uphold the truth. It means to behave in a way that there was no difference between what we think and believe, what we say and what we do. An honest man never steals, never lies and never misleads. An honest man deal honestly, regardless of circumstances. Honesty is important because everyone wants that other people be honest with him. In my opinion, to be honest is not really difficult. To be honest is just a good habit. If a person does something by habit, for him it is not difficult. The opposites of honesty are cheating, lying, stealing, treachery, hypocrisy. I think that there is no difference between honesty and truthfulness, these words are synonyms, but dishonesty and lying are not the same. Dishonesty is a general concept, which includes cheating, lying, stealing, treachery, hypocrisy and misleading, when lying is one of manifestations of dishonesty. Sometimes I was not honest, but it was very bad, and I decided to be honest every time. I always appreciate people when they are honest with me.
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Arkan.H
11/13/2011 10:50:08 am
The honesty is telling the truth even after doing something wrong. Honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; freedom from fraud or guile. Every person must to be honest in dealing with others. Every one of us does not like to deceive others, so it must deceive to the other, so now the honest very important.
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Roman Ch
11/13/2011 11:01:58 am
I think that honest people do not exist. We need to try to be honest. Hard to trust not honest people. Although it is sometimes to be honest is not always good. Your honesty may hurt someone. I was not always honest. And the same people told me a lie. First you have to be honest with yourself. And do not lie to yourself.
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Cheng Saechao
11/13/2011 12:14:56 pm
Honesty- means the quality or fact to being honest; uprightness and farness. The honest person will always tell the truth and never see them feel or look guilty. Honesty is important because the person you care or love can always trust you. Sometime is difficult to be honest because you don’t want that particular person to know everything about you or personal lives? The opposite of honesty is lies. It’s always good to be honest because what goes around come around, you wanted to treat other people how you would wanted to be treated. Dishonesty is not good because your love one will not trust you. Honesty and truthfulness they are little different: Honesty is farness and Truthfulness is telling the truth. I think that dishonesty and lying are the same because both are not telling the truth. Sometime I cannot be completely honest about the thing that I don’t know people to know about. The dishonest I have is how much I get paid for work, I don’t wanted to let them know because I don’t wanted to know how much money I make. I always appreciate people that are being honest with me. I don’t know if people are always being honest with me, but for the people who I can trust I would think that they are honest with me.
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safieh gh
11/13/2011 01:17:16 pm
Honesty is very important to everybody, A honest person always tell the truth and act right. If the people in a society doesn’t tell the truth to each other no one can trust them. Sometimes honesty will be difficult, when somebody without sin, the people think is guilty, while you are sinful.
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Vasilii Ivanov
11/13/2011 02:00:26 pm
I can not give a complete definition of honesty, but I know to have integrity and be honest it is very important in life. Be honest to others or to be honest with yourself is important. An honest person is respected, valued, people trusted him, and taken as an example to others. An honest man does not deceive others, even himself. I know that there is a difference between honesty and truthfulness. Sometimes you can tell the truth, but to be honest. If a person has a goal to always be honest in life, even when it is difficult to be honest, he overcomes all, and remains honest to the end. I appreciate the honest people very much and try to emulate their honesty in my life and all my actions. I can not tell whether I was always honest in my life, but I want to say that I want to be fair to others very much and to ourselves as well.
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Oleksandra Ivanova
11/13/2011 02:36:03 pm
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At3l63r L
11/13/2011 03:05:50 pm
That mean Not likely to lie,steal,or cheating.Behavior in which someone tell the truth.Sometime it was so difficult to be a honest person in life.It can be happen when you are dishonest to someone.You can said but it was not truth and that why we call it dishonesty.For example,stealing is not good because is not belong to you but you take it and not let the person that belong to him or her know.For me sometime I dishonesty to someone at home or can be everywhere i go.And I know that is not the only me but everyone dose.This is a good thing to all over the world to learned and share it to all especially for all young in this world.So it is Important to me do educated at all time.
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Natalia G
11/13/2011 03:39:47 pm
Definition of honesty it is to be honest. I think the most important thing in life is to be honest in life with your family and friends. Sometimes I'm not honest with my kids because not all things you can tell them , my kids are still small. I like honest people, because usually they are honest with everyone. I appreciate when people are honest with me, I try to be honest back . Of course sometimes I don't tell my opinion if I can hurt them, because it is only my opinion.
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Meivel L
11/13/2011 03:58:14 pm
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Maryna N.
11/27/2011 11:52:54 am
The definition of honesty is to say always only truth. A honest person never says lie. To be always honest is very important in our life. But sometime it's very difficult. There are many times in our life when we can't say truth. We need say something that is 99% of truth and 1% of lie. I'm not thinking that it's right. I don't know. Specially it's as for kids. We can't say then always truth because they can't understand everything. But anyways it's good to be honest. Sometime we should be dishonest if we don't want to hurt someone's feeling. In my opinion every person should be honest with himself. If a person is honest with himself he will be honest with other people.
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Alsid Ghoddoussi
11/29/2011 05:44:00 pm
Honesty means to tell the truth and not to lie. I think honesty is the most important quality. I like to be able to trust people. This makes life more enjoyable. When some one is not honest, it can break you heart or make you angry.
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