Quotes About Honesty

Transparency is key to reciprocal accountability, which we use to be both free and smart. It is the miracle tool that enables us to question the lies of monsters.

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.

'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.

No man wants to accept they could be getting used for money. But it's OK for them to let us know that they use us?

I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.

I like it when someone tells me 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.

Being a historian, if only for the day, teaches you useful things like judgment, and the ability to detect when someone is lying to you.

Accusations are useless.

Thanks to social media, we've also been able to show ourselves as we are. In the end, masks are useless. You have to be real.

If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actually having social responsibility, and they're kind of hiding behind it, that's kind of useless, or even worse.

I was never a steroid user at all, at least not knowingly.

My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that.

If a person uses the word 'sorry' loosely then of course it loses its value.

I don't think Othello is a jealous man - he is a man who has been deceived by another person, just as everybody in the play is deceived by that person... The playwright uses the word 'jealousy' over and over and over again, but I don't think it has anything to do with being jealous.

I'm not a person who uses people.

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is more usual than for a man to impute his actions to honorable motives when it is nearly demonstrable that they flowed from some corrupt and contemptible force.

I admit that, for the first month of his candidacy, I had my concerns about Trump. I questioned, for example, whether someone with such cutting yet candid honesty, a candidate who veered so sharply from so many of the usual political expectations, could ever become president.