Quotes About Honesty

Adlai Stevenson once said to Richard Nixon: "If you stop telling lies about me I'll stop telling the truth about you.

I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty.

The point is not the honest relief of suffering but the promulgation of a cult based on death and suffering and subjection.

I shall simply say that those who offer false consolation are false friends.

The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatant than latent.

Actions and words are judged by reputations, and not the other way around.

The point is not the honest relief of suffering but the promulgation of a cult based on death and suffering and subjection. Mother

Orwell was one of those upon whom nothing was lost. (This included, as Orwell himself said: "the power of facing unpleasant facts"). By declining to lie, even as far as possible to himself, and by his determination to seek elusive but verifiable truth, he showed how much can be accomplished by an individual who unites the qualities of intellectual honesty and moral courage..

Imponderable Sir, I presume from some if not all of your many reputations that you might prefer honest and convinced unbelief to the hypocritical and self-interested affectation of faith or the smoking tributes of bloody altars.

Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro.

By declining to lie, even as far as possible to himself, and by his determination to seek elusive but verifiable truth, he showed how much can be accomplished by an individual who unites the qualities of intellectual honesty and moral courage.

verdadero valor de un ser humano no viene determinado por su grado de posesión, supuesto o real, de la verdad, sino más bien por la honestidad de su esfuerzo en pos de alcanzarla. No es la posesión de la verdad, sino más bien la búsqueda de la misma, lo que ensancha su capacidad y donde puede hallarse su siempre creciente perfectibilidad. La posesión nos convierte en sujetos pasivos, indolentes y orgullosos.

A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It's not moral to lie to children. It's not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only would believe nonsense, they can be saved. It's immoral.

Christopher Hitchens

Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention – though we may lie about it sometimes, to heighten it.

Live how you live, feel how you feel and fuck all the phonies in your way.

Love deeply grounded, hardly is dissembled.

You want me and I want you. right? Who did she think she was? You can't just go around blurting out the truth like a prophet with Tourette's Syndrome. He said, Well, I guess. Yeah, that's right.

If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.

You can't just go around blurting out the truth like a prophet with Tourette's syndrome.

Para ser honesto era muito raro ferver, mas gostava do som da expressão fervoroso pagão e creio que seria um nome fantástico para uma banda de rock cristã.

There's a difference between bearing false witness and saving someone's feelings.

Things are different when you live closer to the bone, Mr. Stoddard.

What's morality?" "It's the difference between what is right and what you can rationalize.