Quotes About Honesty

We cannot really think in one way and act in another...

Nothin' wrong with sentiment, if it's what you truly feel. That's the trouble with folks, they're afraid to show what's inside 'em.

A woman always thinks it takes two to keep a secret, but I'm here to say I think it takes one.

No flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.

An upright man is always worth beholding—but then he is most to be admired when like a bright star, he shines in the dark, and having lost all, he holds fast his integrity.

As no flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.

The best mirror is not that which is most gilded, but that which shows the truest face.

men are not good in truth when they are good by halves.

There certainly is no "complete explanation" to be offered by one who attempts to uphold the historical accuracy of the New Testament. The "Devil" and "Type" theories having vanished, like all theories built on sand, nothing now remains for the honest man to do but acknowledge the truth, which is, that the history of Jesus of Nazareth as related in the books of the New Testament, is simply a copy of that of Buddha, with a mixture of mythology borrowed from other nations.

A boasting tongue, as sure as fate,    Will trip its owner soon or late.

The silence of the three of them had made a little kernel of sense in a world of boasting, self-excuse and rhetoric.

It was not necessary to explain that nothing escaped the eyes of Coaltown except the truth.)

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." —FLANNERY O'CONNOR "I

the truth is not supposed to free you from the truth, just from everything else

The world was built on foundations of lies; upheld by deception to conceal the fruits of life.

You don't promise things to kids and then disappear.

Delight in everything! Have an actual life and live it! She vowed to herself to be honest—with herself and with everyone. In pain? Admit it. In love? Claim it. Life was too short to be anything but herself.

I couldn't feel anything," I finally told him. "I couldn't feel the truth. Does that make sense? Do you know what the truth feels like?" "I know what it sounds like.

Some people think art is pretending, but to me it's the opposite. It's the one place where you can't pretend.

That's the difference between the real stuff and the crap. I know which one you are and you know which one I am.

I didn't know if he was crying for what he'd lost, or for what he'd never had, but there was a beauty in his tears that moved me more than I could ever explain with words—a beauty in the honesty of his sadness, in the grace of it's purity. It was holy water raining down from the clouds in his eyes, falling to the sand then being carried back to the source from which it came—his blessed sea.

I can't lie I can't tell you that I'm something I'm not No matter how I try I'll never be able to give you something Something that I just haven't got

I always come from truth.