Quotes About Honesty

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

I am Billy Dean. This is the truth. This is my tail.

He got into the car thinking that people were interesting. Sometimes they just couldn't distinguish the truth from bullshit. Sometimes they didn't want to. It was often easier just to believe a lie.

It takes courage to speak your heart, when others do not want you to.

The truth always matters

When you lie a rush of adrenaline to the capillaries in the nose causes it to itch. So people who are lying tend to involuntarily scratch it.

Sometimes the truth does hurt, Jimmy. But I'll take the truth over speculation and just plain wrong information any day. Once you accept anything less than that, the whole world goes to Hell.

People can lie with words, but their faces, and in particular their eyes, give them away. They

could lie as well

But don't sit here and think that you're cured, because that's the biggest load of crap I've ever heard. People who want to get better, they work at it. They don't lie to themselves and everyone else. They don't sit on their ass and sink deeper into a pathetic existence while denying anything's wrong at all. They have balls not bullshit. And I'm pretty much fed up with yours.

prevaricate. As a detective and now a PI, he had to

You're lying to me, aren't you?" "Pretty much, yeah." "Thanks for being honest about your dishonesty.

When you lie a rush of adrenaline to the capillaries in the nose causes it to itch. So people who are lying tend to involuntarily scratch it. - John Puller

In the dialogue people should talk directly to one another, one to one, across the circle. Then the time would come, if we got to know each other a bit and could trust each other, when you could speak very directly to the whole group, or to anybody in it.

If facts are inconvenient, well, damn those who live and work with facts.

Back up this 'grant-hugging' calumny on the Fox web site by next week, or admit now that you're a coward-liar.

Keep as few secrets as possible. The remaining ones will be easier to protect.

Self-righteousness is an especially heady condition that all of us have experienced at one time or another. Those who are honest will admit there is something sickly-sweet and alluring about knowing you are right, while others are terribly wrong.

We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.

that explains everything and excuses nothing.

If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself.

Refusing to talk about something wouldn't make it go away. If it was there, it was there, and no amount of verbal acrobatics could make it go away.

You won't be able to do it wrong, Durnik--any more than you'd be able to lie or cheat or steal. It's built into you to do it right, so don't worry about it. That's all very well for you to say, Mistress, Pol, he replied, but if you don't mind, I will worry about it just a bit--privately of course.

He had performed that last service that a man can perform for a friend—he had told the truth about him.