Honesty is it the best policy?

I have gone through your topic and this is very interesting. Always I try to be the honest in every sphere.But some time it is not possible due to unavoidable circumstances. I think honesty pays name & fame and in the character building it plays a pivotal role. One of my colleague one day got a packet in the bus while travelling and it was full of original testimonials of the person who went to appear before an interview. But the poor fellow could not appear due to non submission of his original. My friend seeing the tel. no. on the top corner of the pkt he contacted the persons and informed that his lost pkt is in a safe custody . My friend also give his address and no to that person. The stranger went to my friend's house and claimed for the lost pkt. My friend after verification returned the pkt. The stranger thanked him for such kindness. It is really a memorable day. If he is not getting all these documents his carreer could have been cholked but now he is very happy. He also told that there some people in the world who maintain the honest and for them world is going on . pkc3000

I am very honest to people. I think it is the best policy. I wont be downright mean about what I say to people, I think there is a way to say something nicely, while being to the point and not sugar coating my words. I cannot stand it when people are too nice and cannot tell someone how they really feel.

I am also of the same character I tell the people about their wrong thing in front of them and sometime lose friends and sometime take the blame of bad person.But i dont care i think iam right to myself..

nice character you have but i guess sometimes if your friend are not so fermiliar with you they may feel bad when you just speak everything you really think. for example when you see a friend with cancer but he do not know he had got that terrible disease and the doctor and his family just do not tell him during his medical treatment just for keeping his will to continue life, would you tell him that to destroy his hope in his mind? so sometimes say nothing is another kind of honesty,if you really don't want to lie even for a good reason.

being honest to your friends is a sign of caring to them, even though it is negeative, because you want your friends to improve, and by saying the trust is a first step. honesty connects with concience, and you don't need to memorize by lying if you are honest.

We've just discussed the Misanthrope by Moliere in English class and I think that that lesson has something which will help me answer this question,as well as being raised in a country where people are conservative and concern as to how people will feel I can understand how some people will take offense if you say what is on your mind. In my case, I also like honesty, I don't feel comfortable when I lie. When someone does something which I don't like or if a person looks awful, I tell it to them but in a tactful way. You see, honesty is still the best policy, it is the way on how you express yourself through your words that makes the difference as to how people will react. But, in the way it is how people will choose to react that will prevail. If suppose you did express yourself in a tactful way but the person chose to be offended then he will be offended.