The benefits of honesty are as follows:

1. Honesty is the foundation of building a person

Confucius said: "If a person has no faith, he does not know what to do." He believes that if people are not trustworthy, they will have no place in society and nothing will be accomplished.

2. Integrity is the way to manage the family

Wei Zheng, a famous minister in the Tang Dynasty, said: "If a couple is kind, they will break up if they are not honest." As long as there is good faith between husband and wife, father and son, and brothers. Treat each other sincerely, be honest and trustworthy, and you can live in harmony and achieve the goal of "harmony in your home and everything prospering". If family members lack integrity and trust each other, the family will gradually fall apart.

3. Honesty is the foundation of making friends

Only by "making friends and keeping your word" can you achieve the goal of "friends trusting you", being sincere and helping selflessly. Otherwise, friends will be full of hypocrisy and deception, and there will never be true friends. Friends are based on integrity.

4. Integrity is the way to govern

"Zuo Zhuan" says: "Faith is the treasure of the country." It points out that integrity is the fundamental magic weapon for governing the country. Among the three options of "enough food", "enough soldiers" and "people's trust", Confucius would rather "get rid of soldiers" and "get rid of food", but also insist on retaining "people's trust". Because Confucius believed that "the people cannot stand without trust." If the people do not trust the ruler, the country and the government cannot stand at all. Therefore, rulers must "win the trust of the people", as Wang Anshi said: "Since ancient times, the people have been driven by trust and sincerity, and a word is worth a hundred pieces of gold."

5. Integrity is the soul of doing business

In modern society, when businessmen sign a contract, they expect the other party to abide by the contract. Integrity is the best means of competition in various commercial activities, the soul of the market economy, and a true "golden business card" for entrepreneurs.

The disadvantages of honesty are as follows:

1. Blind honesty can easily give opportunities to those with bad intentions, causing personal or financial losses;

2. Blind integrity is a manifestation of one's own lack of ability to distinguish and judge due to stereotypes and stupidity. Such a lack of subjective judgment for a long time is not conducive to the progress of thinking;

3. Blind integrity can easily give people the impression of being pedantic and inflexible. Impression is not good for interpersonal communication.