Quotes About Honesty

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

Straight is my path. Straight is my mind. Straight is my heart. Straight is my speech. Kind will I be to my brothers and sisters. Kind will I be to beast and bird.

She kept secrets, her own and those told to her. I guess you'd call it integrity

In the simple way of the wild daisies that grew in the grass of the pasture behind our home she offered the beauty of herself without pretension.

Straight is my path. Straight is my mind. Straight is my heart. Straight is my speech. Kind will I be to my brothers and sisters. Kind will I be to beast and bird. He

My chosen weapon is the truth. It will set us free. Eventually.

Don't face up to your problems with honesty and courage. That's just crazy. You're better off burying them under an avalanche of sarcasm.

Why risk the rare happy marriage-rarer still, a love marriage that endures-for something as common and toxic as complete, unthinking, transparent honesty? Who would be helped by my telling? Me? not at all. I was made of steel, I promise you.

Why risk the rare happy marriage—rarer still, a love marriage that endures—for something as common and as toxic as complete, unthinking, transparent honesty?

It is, of course, the last resort of a liar to challenge his inquisitor to call him a liar directly.

You don't want to hear what I have to say. You only want me to say what you want to hear. But trust me when I tell you that you won't ever get all you want. You'll just grow frustrated and bitter, and you'll end up doing things that will kill the best part of you.

But isn't it better to know the truth, no matter how vile?" He lifted up his head and cackled. "Whoever told you such nonsense? One kind lie is worth a thousand truths.

Veritas, it's called. Don't you love it when

I can't give people back their loved ones. I can't restore their happiness or innocence, can't give back their lives the way they were. But I can give them the truth. Then they will be free to grieve for the dead, and then free to start living again. Truth like that can be a humbling and sacred gift for a scientist to give.

William Makepeace Thackeray

In Washington, truth is never told in daylight hours or across a desk

You can not lie in your paintings, because you cannot hide from yourself.

In the long run it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.

All Cretans are liars, as a Cretan poet once told me.

If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash. They should stand up..

This ain't no party. This ain't no disco. This ain't no fooling around.

And because I had been in some tight corners before and had known real fear, if I found something that was true, I was happy to just write it up and deal with the fallout. No big.

I think that one should recognize reality even when one doesn't like it; indeed, especially when one doesn't like it.