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“Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.”
Integrity includes conduct that can withstand public scrutiny as well as private conviction.
Source note: 2 Corinthians 8:21 in the King James Version.
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“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
Voice: Fictional character · The Astronomer
Knowledge needs ethical direction, while good intentions need understanding; either quality becomes inadequate when separated from the other.
Source note: Chapter 41; the Astronomer explains why both competence and moral character are needed for trust.
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“It does not pay an individual to do anything except what his conscience will approve of every day, and every hour and minute in the day.”
Washington makes conscience a recurring test of conduct, asking whether ordinary choices can withstand one’s own moral approval rather than merely outside scrutiny.
Source note: Character Building, “What Will Pay?”, Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington reports a discussion of honesty in business and uses conscience as a practical test of conduct; the sentence belongs to that address’s argument that dishonest dealing does not pay.
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“The integrity of the upright shall guide them.”
Integrity functions as an internal guide when a person has to choose without knowing every consequence in advance.
Source note: Proverbs 11:3 in the King James Version; the opening clause is quoted here.
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“No matter what the thing is, put your conscience into it; do your best.”
Work gains moral weight when effort and conscience remain present even in tasks that seem small, routine, or unlikely to attract praise.
Source note: Character Building, “What Is To Be Our Future?”, Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington asks whether Tuskegee will remain worthy of public confidence and answers by requiring each student and worker to put conscience and full effort into every kind of work.
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“Truth is the heart’s loyalty to abstract right, made manifest in concrete instances.”
Jordan connects principle with practice: loyalty to truth becomes meaningful only when it appears in the specific choices and statements of ordinary life.
Source note: The Power of Truth, opening chapter, Project Gutenberg #56020; the sentence summarizes Jordan’s conduct-of-life definition of truth.