Quotes About Honesty

There are two races of men in this world, but only these two–the 'race' of the decent man and the 'race' of the indecent man. Both are found everywhere; they penetrate into all groups of society. No group consists entirely of decent or indecent people.

there are two races of men in this world, but only these two—the "race" of the decent man and the "race" of the indecent

From all this we may learn that there are two races of men in this world, but only these two—the "race" of the decent man and the "race" of the indecent man. Both are found everywhere; they penetrate into all groups of society. No group consists entirely of decent or indecent people

Keegi ei tohiks kohut mõista enne, kui ta on endale kõigutamatu aususega vastanud, kas ta ise oleks säärases olukorras kindlalt toiminud teisiti.

There are two races of men in this world, but only these two—the "race" of the decent man and the "race" of the indecent man.

El ateo preferiría que se fuera honesto por uno mismo, por el bien de otro o por la bondad intrínseca de la cosa, y no para ir al cielo.

words were nothing but foolery and cheating.

One of his favorite quotes had been from Ben Franklin: Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.

For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying--what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must simply say what one felt.

Be truthful, one would say, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of your intellect bring you to a halt.

Because it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels

They had been written in the red light of emotion and not in the white light of truth.

Now then is my chance to find out what is of great importance, and I must be careful, and tell no lies.

To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.

Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having. Never pretend that children, for instance, can be replaced by other things.

Si no dices la verdad sobre ti mismo, difícilmente podrás decir la de las otras personas.

Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.

it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels

Thank God, Helen, I'm not like you! I sometimes think you don't think or feel or care to do anything but exist! You're like Mr. Hirst. You see that things are bad, and you pride yourself on saying so. It's what you call being honest; as a matter of fact it's being lazy, being dull, being nothing. You don't help; you put an end to things.

Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.

He stretched himself. He rose. He stood upright in complete nakedness before us, and while the trumpets pealed Truth! Truth! Truth! we have no choice left but confess – he was a woman.

There is, let us confess it (and illness is the great confessional) a childish outspokenness in illness; things are said, truths blurted out, which the cautious respectability of health conceals.