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Quotes About Honesty

Trust Wes to say what people are thinking but are too smart to actually say aloud.
~ Gene Kim
To tell the truth is an act of love. To withhold the truth is an act of hate. Or worse, apathy." I had laughed at those words at the time, but over the years, I've realized that having people give you honest feedback is a rare gift.
~ Gene Kim
By removing blame, you remove fear; by removing fear, you enable honesty; and honesty enables prevention.
~ Gene Kim
Let's be honest," Patty says. "Priority 1 is whoever is yelling the loudest, with the tie-breaker being who can escalate to the most senior executive. Except when they're more subtle. I've seen a bunch of my staff always prioritizing a certain manager's requests, because he takes them out to lunch once a month.
~ Gene Kim
Comedy is basically truthful.
~ Gene Perret
If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?
~ Gene Wilder
All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.
~ Gene Wolfe
I have never lied about my relationship with Bill Clinton. The only proven liar, at this point, and the only admitted liar, is Bill Clinton not Gennifer Flowers, not Kathleen Willey, not Paula Jones and not Monica Lewinsky, at this point. He is the only proven liar.
~ Gennifer Flowers
Trouthe is the hyeste thyng that men may kepe.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
For nakid as a worm was she.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Finally coming to terms with Fathers Day. I blow as a Dad. I get it. No, I'm not an evil, abusive Father, it's just that while all my intentions and thoughts have been out of love for my kids, my actions and behaviour never measured up.
~ Geoffrey Hill
Although Churchill hadn't been the only sponsor of the doomed Gallipoli enterprise, he had played a leading role, and not even an honest one at times. In any case, the old saying goes that success has many parents but failure is an orphan, and Gallipoli had become a one-parent child.
~ Geoffrey Wheatcroft
No cheap tricks.
~ Geoffrey Wolff
Marie dini bir kitap okumaktad?r. - " Ve aÄŸz?ndan hiç yalan ç?kmad?…Tanr?m! Tanr?m! Bakma bana! Ama ona bir kad?n getirdiler, kocas?n? aldatm??, orta yere diktiler… O dediki seni lanetlemiyorum. Çekil git kar??mdan.
~ Georg Buchner
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward 'I'm such a klutz' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver.
~ George
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
~ George A. Smith
Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit and takes no risk. But the prosperous individual who counts his money in the street, forthwith will be invited to attend a charity bazaar.
~ George Ade
He who saith there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
~ George Berkeley
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.
~ George Bernard Shaw