Quotes About Honesty

Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.

I feel that the truth is simply the truth. And that to shield someone from it is only a manner of treating that person with a lack of respect.

All I know is that you can't force yourself to feel something you don't.

Accepting things. That's what the talk was about. About how insane it is to try to pretend something isn't a certain way, or that you can make it another way, just because you don't like it.

Not a one of us can be everything somebody else wants us to be. Trouble comes when we try to pretend we can. Or when people see it like a betrayal. You know. That somebody won't meet all their needs. My mom used to say it's because we weren't put here on earth to take care of each other. And that it's silly to get mad at someone for letting you down when they're just being who they are. She said it's like getting mad at your dog for not being a cat.

I have always felt," Nathan said, "that the truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter to suit the feelings of those we love and want to protect.

We all have to go from not knowing to knowing. If you have shortcomings, I fully believe it's better to look them in the eye. Pretending otherwise gets you nowhere.

truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter

the truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter to suit the feelings of those we love and want to protect.

But you can't change the world on the honor system. Shoot, anybody knows that. Leave people on the honor system, they don't do it. As soon as you look away, they just don't. I mean, look what happened.

Everything grows best in oxygen and sunlight except secrets and guilt and regrets. They

His grandfather probably would have said that all men feel fear, but cowardly men deny it.

Everything grows best in oxygen and sunlight except secrets and guilt and regrets. They like the dank spaces. Drag them out into the light and they fail to thrive.

If there's one thing I learned growing up, it's that you have to talk to kids a lot, and you have to tell them the damn truth.

feel that the truth is simply the truth. And that to shield someone from it is only a manner of treating that person with a lack of respect.

If you have shortcomings, I fully believe it's better to look them in the eye. Pretending otherwise gets you nowhere.

the truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter to suit the feelings of those we love and want to protect." He

have always felt," Nathan said, "that the truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter to

I think we all more or less know where we stand with people, whether we like to admit it to ourselves or not.

I couldn't bring myself to talk like one of those corny made-for-TV movies where people say exactly what they're feeling, as though there was nothing difficult about that at all.

When something is true, it takes a lot of energy to pretend it's not. It pretty much uses up the life energy a person's got and doesn't leave much energy for anything else. After years of that, you just get so exhausted. Almost everything sounds okay if it comes with a rest.

I seem to remember that Gandhi once said his commitment was to truth, not consistency.

So, who's stronger, the man who looks truth in the eye, or the man who tells himself lies to make it go away?

No such thing as too truthful," I said.