Quotes About Honesty

I've never liked euphemisms. I don't say "passed away." I say "dead.

One must be willing to be cruel in the search for truth, but cruelty for no purpose is ignorance.

Whatever fills the heart eventually will be spoken, because the mouth is the faucet of the heart.

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It's hard sometimes.

If you're being honest, you don't have to tell THE truth. Only God knows THE truth.

Truth does not blush.

No man easily admits that he is afraid.

They were hollow words. I think God heard this and knew. Promises should be sacred; I think I cursed myself by making one I did not intend to keep.

But I didn't want there to be any silences, out of which raw truths might tumble

you when you're right and tells you when you're

pard is somebody you can tell it to with all its rough edges. He'll round

only inasmuch as the injury had been secret, she was doing herself justice as best she could.

Only after the warrior has brought about the ninety degree shift can he in all honesty accept the title of Toltec. Thus the career of true-blooded Toltecs is short by any standard, and yet it is time enough in which to rejoice in their full power. In having chosen to walk the path of freedom warriors know that they cannot defeat old age, but only fight it off impeccably until death taps them.

IN WORKING WITH MIRRORS IT IS NECESSARY TO RECAPITULATE YOUR ENTIRE LIFE, FROM THE PRESENT MOMENT RIGHT BACK TO THE MOMENT OF BIRTH. SUCH A RECAPITULATION DEMANDS A LEVEL OF HONESTY WHICH IS ONLY ATTAINABLE THROUGH AN ACT OF RUTHLESSNESS. RUTHLESSNESS MUST BEGIN WITH YOURSELF. ONLY WHEN RUTHLESSNESS HAS REPLACED SELF-PITY CAN YOU ACHIEVE THE SOBRIETY NEEDED IN ORDER TO DISCRIMINATE WITH WISDOM.

Churches become unsafe places if its leaders fail to be honest, transparent, and reliable. Sincerity may not be the final basis of truth, but there is no deep truth communicated where sincerity is lacking.

Virginity is in the lies of the beholder.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.

Truth doesn't make a noise.

Ja, Herr Baron, es gibt viele Wege, die zu zu Gott führen, und es gibt viele Wege, die zu Glück führen, dessen bin ich in meinem Herzen gleicherweise gewiss. Und der eine Weg ist gut und der andere Weg ist gut. Aber jeder gute Weg muss ein offner Weg und ein gerader Weg sein und in der Sonne liegen und ohne Morast und ohne Sumpf und ohne Irrlicht. Auf die Wahrheit kommt es an, und auf die Zuverlässigkeit kommt es an und auf die Ehrlichkeit.

A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.

A man who lies is ashamed, for each lie teaches him the degradation of a world which, forcing him to lie in order to live, promptly sings the praises of loyalty and truthfulness.

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.

Yet literal-mindedness is not honesty or fidelity to truth--far from it. For it is the whole experience of mankind that sexual life is always, and must always be, hidden by veils of varying degrees of opacity, if it is to be humanized into something beyond a mere animal function. What is inherently secretive, that is to say self-conscious and human, cannot be spoken of directly; the attempt leads only to crudity, not to truth.