Quotes About Honesty

when you mess up, you have to face up to it, make it right. Then people respect you, and even more, you can, you know, respect yourself." She felt a twinge in her gut as she dumped chocolate powder in a mug. "Man," she muttered. "Everybody makes mistakes, but cowards hide from them.

ByÅ'a mieszaninÄ… szczerych prób i ?ycia w kÅ'amstwie i oszustwie.

Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are hard, it's perfect truth.

Be true to yourself, Marco,' he said, 'and anyone who tries to make your truth a lie or shameful isn't worth a single one of your thoughts.

Truth is not affected by the attitude of the one professing it.

we humans have a fatal tendency to try to adjust the truth to fit our desires rather than adjusting our desires to fit the truth. But

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." —WINSTON CHURCHILL

In fact, we humans have a fatal tendency to try to adjust the truth to fit our desires rather than adjusting our desires to fit the truth.

because people who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation. It's a way for people to be honest without telling the truth.

No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actually okay, because I will never satisfy a woman, either. Should I be writing such thoughts? Perhaps not. Perhaps it's a bad idea. I can definitely foresee a scenario where that first paragraph could come back to haunt me, especially if I somehow became marginally famous.

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

I think the larger sect of liars are people who think they are telling the truth, but who really have no idea what the truth is.

I've had the great pleasure of meeting Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase," ex–Sex Pistols vocalist John Lydon once told Rolling Stone. "I found him completely dishonest and totally likable, because he doesn't care.

Whenever someone says something that's both realistic and abhorrent, It makes me suspect everyone else is lying about everything else.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

You can't fool people into loving you.

For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.

It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it.

Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.

Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]