What is honesty to you?

Being as accurate as I can. Telling what seems to be the truth, as far as I can tell. My conscience always lets me know when I am straying. it is very straightforward.

I have no idea what “What is honesty not?” means.

^You honestly have no idea?

Telling it the way it is, is honesty
Telling it the way you think they want to here it….not

Honesty is like such a lonely word.
Everyone is like so untrue.
Honesty is like hardly ever heard.

Billy Joel couldn’t have said it better @TinyChi.

Honesty is being authentic. Telling the truth yes, but also being yourself and not pretending to be or to think something that isn’t true. So, not ‘gilding the lily’. It is also not lying or cheating and that includes lying by omission. Not leading people to believe one thing, when you feel or think something quite different.

Nothing to be expressed without caution.

Honesty: truthful
Not-honesty: evasion, lies

Honesty to me, is the foundation for a real friendship, a real relationship. There is so little around honesty has become a sacred grail. So I treasure those who offer it.

Honesty is admitting when you were wrong, even though it’s embarrassing some times.
I have a friend on FB who posted some thing about Romney…something told me to check Snopes…and it was false. So I, and a couple of other people PM’d him. He left the post up, but within it he said, “I was wrong. This is not true.” He could have just as easily deleted it. I call that honesty and integrity.
You will NEVER see a republican do that, or a radical Christian. They’ll defend their stuff into the ground, no matter how ridiculous it is.

Honesty is one measure of character. To me, it is essential; to many, it is incidental. I say, beware of those people.

Thank you all.
I’m looking for something along the lines of what @Dutchess_III posted:
’‘Honesty is admitting when you were wrong, even though it’s embarrassing some times’’.
@gailcalled ’‘What honesty is not is being cruel, unnecesarily.’’ for example.

@syz I put the question in Social.
‘What does ’‘Everyone is like so untrue’’ mean by the way?

@TinyChi I think you put the ’‘like’’ in there for humor I get it

@Dutchess_III ’‘You will NEVER see a republican do that, or a radical Christian. They’ll defend their stuff into the ground, no matter how ridiculous it is.’’ Are you sure about that statement?

It’s been my experience, yes, that a radical Christian will defend fallacies that they want to believe it, to the ground. I’m not referring to their faith. I’m referring to political discussions I’ve had, where they BELIEVE that some guy named “Jeff” called into a radio station claiming to be a neurosurgeon, and spouting off a load of crap about how under Obama care people over 70 will be denied neurosurgery. The evidence that is a hoax is completely overwhelming, but one person I know is fighting it to the ground, as she does every little thing concerning Obama.

But that is true about a radical anything isn’t it?

Yes.