Quotes About Honesty

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

In the split-second before someone prepares to answer a question, he will consciously or subconsciously evaluate what the best possible answer might be. For a truthful person, the best possible answer might omit some information. It might have a few extraneous details. But it will still offer the information requested.

I can only live in the world of truth, inasmuch as I'm able to be truthful with myself at any given point, on any given day.

If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.

It's amazing how much you will forgive if the behavior is truthful.

As an actor, the only pressure I have is to just be truthful and to do my best work.

When you criticize grown men, it's a lot easier. They make millions of dollars. They should be able to handle it, especially if you do it in a truthful manner... I'm sure it stings, but my whole objective is to be honest.

I want to be unique and original and truthful.

The best comedy is truthful. So if you say something in a way that is amusing, but is rooted in truth, you can get away with it.

You have to be truthful and believable in whatever you do and that is the founding principle of acting.

I would never have told my father a lie. We were brought up to be very truthful. I would never lie today. It's impossible.

You have to be as truthful as you possibly can. That's always been my philosophy.

Your average director will be content with something that comes across as truthful, but we know, as fellow actors, that that's not great for a performer. They have to feel that what they're conveying is honest.

Since Jesus is the truth, if you follow him, you must be truthful, no matter what the personal cost.

Let us be truthful to ourselves and the public.

I think everyone likes direct. They might not like it in a specific moment, but... I'm always gonna push 'em to do more. That's just me. I try to be truthful and honest and transparent, and if they don't like it, then so be it. And that's OK. I think they respect that and they know where I stand.

Leaders of organisations, political parties and large businesses frequently fail to talk in a straight and entirely truthful fashion.

As a martial artist you have to be truthful about yourself so you can approach your training properly and get better.

In my world, I like everything stripped down, something that's really truthful.

You can't have experiments that aren't truthful. You can't lie about equations. Shouldn't be lying in football. That's a message that we should be teaching.

Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.