Intellectual honesty is a disposition to express the truth (as we see it) through our thought, speech, and behavior, to avoid intentionally distorting the truth (as we see it), and to do so because we revere the truth and think it is valuable (King, 2021, p 145)
Intellectual honesty demands that our work is our own. It helps us own up to not doing the reading for class, and it reminds us to adequately cite someone else's work in our essays. Honesty makes us thorough learners and good colleagues who honor the good work of others.