Quotes About Honesty

Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.

Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.

Wer seinem Volk Angst macht, der braucht es [...] nicht zu fürchten.

Simplicity is the seal of truth!

You don't throw your friends under the bus.

I didn't go to political correctness school.

Sprookje Er was eens een man die altijd rechtvaardig was.

Corruption will be enemy number one.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.

Only falsehood wins renown, not understanding!

exacta de los sentimientos que pretende ocultar.

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

How do you have to live, I wondered, to be in harmony with what you honestly think?

Das Kind redet weiter. Beim Reden bleibt etwas auf der Zunge liegen. Das Kind denkt sich, es kann nur die Wahrheit sein, die sich auf die Zunge liegt wie ein Kirschkern, der nicht in den Hals fallen will. Solange die Stimme beim Reden ins Ohr steigt, wartet sie auf die Wahrheit. Aber gleich nach dem Schweigen, denkt sich das Kind, ist alles gelogen, weil die Wahrheit in den Hals gefallen ist.

Today the grass listens when I speak of love. It seems to me that this word isn't honest even with itself.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

I want my girls to see their relationship with me as a place of refuge, a place they can retreat to for honesty, unconditional love, and support. I want to teach them and have them trust me, not fear me. I want to preserve the gentle souls that I see in them." -Liz. M.

But if you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?