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Chinese	Cheng Shi	sincere; true;honest; to make sincere solid; substantial; hard; real; true
French	l'honnetete	characteristic of a person or of behavior which shows conformity to rules of morality, probity or loyalty
German	ehrlichkeit	honesty, honorable dealing, fairness
Spanish	honradez	honesty, integrity, uprightness

Honesty with other individuals, with institutions, with society, with self. The inner strength and confidence that is bred by exacting truthfulness, trustworthiness, and integrity. What does that really mean to you?

One interesting development in our family efforts to teach honesty occurred when our twenty-month-old baby, Charity, learned two new words. She already knew how to say the names of each of her eight brothers and sisters ( or at least her version of those names ). Then one week she learned two new words: did it. With those words and her siblings' names she became an instant, expert tattletale. Whenever we asked, "Who made the mess?' or "Who squeezed the toothpaste out?' little Charity, who is a marvelously observant child, would tell us the answer. One result was that the other children become more thoroughly honest-or at least more quickly honest about what they had done. Charity the enforcer, one of her brothers began to call her. -Richard

Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented George Braque

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand H.W.Shaw

Confucius (551 B.C.E.-478 B.C.E.) Born as Kung Fu-Tze ( Confucius is a translation into Latin 0 in what is now Shantung, China, he probably wasn't religious in the traditional sense, yet many scholars consider him a holy man. Confucius considered himself a teacher of four basic subjects: literature, human conduct, being one's true self, and honesty in social relationships. The heart of his teachings was what he called "shu". "Do not do unto others what you would not have others do unto you." Confucius strongly believed that a person's first duty was to be virtuous; this would create a strong community of harmony and peace. though more philosopher than theologian, his ideas about morality became the state religion of china----Confucianism.

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