Quotes About Honesty

The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other.

repentance is sometimes described as "coming to our senses" (see Luke 15:17)- 2 Tim. 2:25-26). It involves a waking up to the fact that we have been deceiving ourselves and that our ideas, attitudes, values, or goals have been wrong.

The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.

You in big trouble w'en you have ta apologize foh bein' yo'self.

Truth is always what they don't say.

Most murky writing is inadvertent, a sincere if doomed effort to communicate. Far worse is the deliberate attempt to say something that you know readers won't like in a way that you hope they won't understand.

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

Without the adjustment, you are working under a lie. Everyone knows it and has to hide to protect themselves. This is no way to get good software done and deployed;

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable; be honest and frank anyway.

But facts are chiels that winna ding, and downa be disputed.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't.

Never buy anything from someone who is out of breath.

An honest God's the noblest work of man.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

A responsible step in loosening the grip of any lie we might be living is to ask ourselves, solemnly and seriously, this momentous question: "Might I be in the wrong?" What gives this question its power? The answer can be stated very simply: Just to ask the question seriously, even without answering it, is already to undergo a change of attitude.

La autotraición se produce cuando actuamos en contra de esos sentimientos que acabamos de describir, cuando hacemos a los demás lo contrario de lo que sentimos que debemos hacer o cuando no hacemos lo que sentimos que debemos hacer.

Honest self-understanding liberates us from our stuck emotions.

even a question can be a lie if asked in the right way.

Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships.

A mild fabrication may raise suspicion, but a major falsehood invites credulity.

start with one true thing