Quotes About Honesty

If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.

What do you do when you find yourself out in a lie—even a white one? Well, one thing for sure, you don't put on black, you don't mourn and beat out a staccato mea culpa on your breast. You go! Get the hell out! Take a chance! Forget you're an American, living in the suburbs of success, hoping to move into the big city...You go!

The follower of fashion can be as honest as the leader of the rebellion against it.

Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

E, com um pouco mais de sinceridade, tornaríamos a vida mais fácil para todos.

Theo, I am a man with faults and errors and passions, but I don't think I ever tried to deprive anyone of his bread or his friends. I have sometimes fought people with words, but attempting a man's life because of a difference of opinion is not the work of an honest man - at least, these are not honest weapons.

Understand that the more clear-cut we are about this, the sooner they will come to you to see them. You yourself do not sell my work, so you are not doing business outside the firm of Boussod V. & Co. by showing it. So you will be acting quite correctly, which is always decent. However, should someone or other want to buy, very good, then they have only to apply directly to me. But be sure of this, if we can stand the siege, my time will come.

And let me just say this: I think as much of brotherly integrity when it comes to Boussod's money as you do. It has never played us false. And we have sweated far too much doing good work to get annoyed at being called thieves or incompetents.

Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

You must never steal another man's words. Ever.

Good writing is emotionally honest but does not get stuck in the emotion.

If you want to be an authentic writer, learn to tell the truth, to wrestle with it, to reflect on it, and then to write about it with great care. And great humility.

A mind aware of its own rectitude.

Trust one who has tried.

It takes great courage to be honest when the honesty is pointed at yourself.

To see and hear what is here, instead of what should be, was, or will be. To say what I feel and think instead of what I should. To feel what I feel instead of what I ought. To ask for what I want instead of always waiting for permission. To take risks on my behalf, instead of choosing to be safe and not rock the boat.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Hace falta ser idiota, o asquerosamente deshonesto, para pensar que una forma de opresión es insoportable y juzgar que la otra está llena de poesía.

Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie.

Letter writing is not the noble enterprise. Remaining fully expressive is the noble enterprise.

Do Not Listen to What They Say, Look at What They Do

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

A meeting is that measure whereby a large number of people gather and some say things that they don't think and others think things that they don't say.

Bir toplant? çok say?da insan?n bir araya geldiÄŸi, baz?lar?n?n gerçekte düÅŸünmediklerini söyledikleri, baz?lar?n?n gerçekte yapt?klar?n? söylemedikleri bir düzenlemedir. -Er Ä°van Çonkin'in YaÅŸam? ve OlaÄŸanüstü Serüvenleri