Quotes About Honesty

Whatever you are, be a good one. -Curtis Sittenfeld (American Wife)

There are two kinds of marriages," Barbara said. "The ones where you're privy to how messy they are, and the ones where you're not.

And if I was looking at that, would I pick you out from everyone else and say, 'That's the most gorgeous woman I've ever seen'? If I'm being honest, no. But human beings aren't static images. We're dynamic and kinetic, and it's like I said before—right away, I wanted to talk to you, and every time I've talked to you since I've always wanted to keep talking to you.

It is the truth that sets us free, and it is the truth that we must run with in order to continue our race in freedom.

Some secrets were so dangerous that they should never be kept.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

The feelings I don't have I don't have. The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have. The felings you say you have, you don't have. The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.

If you go back to that psychological document we call the New Testament, you'll find that it says the devil is 'the father of lies. Now the shadow never lies; it's the ego that lies about its real motives. That's why successful psychotherapy, and any genuine religious conversion, requires absolute honesty about oneself.

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

What liars poets and everybody were!

If there weren't so many lies in the world ... I wouldn't write at all.

Whenever you look back and say if you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as if. The only thing that matters is what really happened.

thing, or who changes his speech or manner according to the appearance or position of the people he meets, is not a man working in the Way.

A person who is influenced by the quality of a thing, or who changes his speech or manner according to the appearance or position of the people he meets, is not a man working in the Way.

U svetu gde je sve obmana — pri?ati istinu je revolucionaran ?in.

If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.

Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.

Experience has taught me," says Sam Wood, "that it is safest to drop, as quickly as possible, people who pretend to be what they aren't.

Give honest and sincere appreciation.

British writer G. K. Chesterton's reply to an invitation by the Times to write an essay on the subject "What's Wrong with the World?" Chesterton's response: Dear Sirs, I am. Sincerely, G. K. Chesterton

Affirmation, in contrast to flattery, requires seeing someone well enough to sense what to affirm, knowing someone well enough to be aware of what really matters. Flattery is usually an admittance of insensibility, a betrayal of trust. We say things we think we should say, but in reality we aren't thinking at all. What message does flattery send? "You don't matter enough for me to pay you much mind.

Nobody in the heavens above or on the earth beneath or in the waters under the earth will ever object to your saying: 'I may be wrong. Let's examine the facts.

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. It not only clears the air of guilt and defensiveness, but often helps solve the problem created by the error.