# Quote — Sissela Bok, Lying

> The role that one assigns to truthfulness will always remain central in considering what kind of person one wants to be—how one wishes to treat, not only other people, but oneself.

- Author: [Sissela Bok](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sissela-bok.md)
- Book: [Lying](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sissela-bok/lying.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sissela_Bok#Lying:_Moral_Choice_in_Public_and_Private_Life_(1978)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/sissela-bok/lying/the-role-that

## More from this book

> Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sissela-bok/lying/trust-and-integrity.md)

> Act only on the maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sissela-bok/lying/act-only-on-the.md)

> Honesty from health professionals matters more to patients than almost everything else that they experience when ill.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sissela-bok/lying/honesty-from-health.md)