Quotes About Honesty

Today, when I think back on the early days and months of Thurston's and my relationship, I wonder whether you can truly love, or be loved back, by someone who hides who they are.

I wonder whether you can truly love, or be loved back, by someone who hides who they are.

You want the foolproof test to see if you're in a good relationship? Tell the person the thing that you're most afraid to tell them. Then see how they react.

There are only two kinds of people in this world... those who pick their nose... and liars. [Joshua, age 9]

I write the truth because I love it and because there is no living creature whose anger I fear or whose praise I court." ~ Nellie Bly, The Evening World, 1895

There are so many times when many of us have found ourselves living a tremendous lie when we could be living a tremendous life.

What you know in your head and what you say out loud are not always the same.

Sometimes you've got a story you need to find the courage to tell.

It was horrible how the hardest things could be the truth.

I don't want to tell you a lie, and I don't know the truth.

I wouldn't have told Susan I loved her even if I thought it was true. Words can be dangerous, as destructive as bombs.

I don't know what to say,' she said after a pause. 'I don't want to tell you a lie, and I don't know the truth.' It was maybe the most honest thing anyone had ever said to me.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.

Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.

In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

How wrong people always were when they said: "It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way." No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

The truth is often painful

When you build on lies, you build strong and solid. It was the truth that undid you.

It's not enough to be honest and loyal, frankly it doesn't matter if you are not, so long as you are perceived to be so.