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Quotes About Honesty

My truth she'd said to him. What the hell is truth anyway Two separate questions yes. But not wholly unrelated. For truth no matter the modifier is always intrinsically modified.
~ Deborah Copaken Kogan
Truth is always the most important thing, even when it leads us into dark places.
~ Deborah Ellis
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. —Muriel Rukeyser
~ Unknown
I don't believe in working in any location, in any environment, for any people with a lack of integrity.
~ Unknown
Ho! Wise men say, 'He who hath not a good and ready memory should never meddle in telling lies.' Drew smiled. I have a good and ready memory.
~ Deeanne Gist
Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.
~ Delia Ephron
God, secrets could simply do you in.
~ Delia Ephron
Mind what you do; if you deceive me once I shall never believe you again.
~ Denis Diderot
Prawda ma swoje strony uderzajÄ…ce, które siÄ™ chwyta, gdy siÄ™ ma talent. - Tak, gdy siÄ™ ma talent. Ale gdy ktoÅ› nie ma? - Gdy nie ma, nie powinien pisa?.
~ Denis Diderot
Se me debe exigir que busque la verdad, pero no que la encuentre.
~ Denis Diderot
a ja nie lubi? k?amstwa, chyba ?e jest u?yteczne i nieodzowne.
~ Denis Diderot
Los lubi chodzi? krÄ™tymi drogami. Obwiniamy go w pierwszej chwili, ?e skÅ'amaÅ', z czasem zaÅ› okazuje siÄ™, ?e mówiÅ' prawdÄ™.
~ Denis Diderot
Engullimos de un sorbo la mentira que nos adula y bebemos gota a gota la verdad que nos amarga.
~ Denis Diderot
He was completely and openly a mess. Meanwhile the rest of us go on trying to fool each other.
~ Denis Johnson
In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.
~ Denis Johnson
There's been a lie told. I've told it. I'm going to let the truth reclaim me. If I can't survive that process, so be it.
~ Denis Johnson
There's nothing wrong with me"—I'm surprised I let those words out. But it's always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.
~ Denis Johnson
No more pretending for him! He was completely and openly a mess. Meanwhile the rest of us go on trying to fool each other.
~ Denis Johnson
Make this moment the moment of truth about yourself. You have been selling short all of your life.
~ Denis Waitley
A man is the stories he tells about himself, and most of those stories are lies. Never look too closely. If you uncover his lies, it'll humiliate you both. Best just to live with the bullshit.
~ Dennis Lehane
He was done with every lie he'd ever allowed himself to believe, every lie he'd ever lived, every lie.
~ Dennis Lehane
Everyone wants to tell you something -anything, everything - about themselves and they just go on and on and on. But when it comes time to show you who they are? Their shit is weak, Nadia. Their shit is lacking. And they just cover it up by talking more, by explaining away what can't be explained away. And then they go on talking more shit about someone else.
~ Dennis Lehane
Everyone I know lies, breaks their word, and has perfectly legitimate excuses for why they do. Except you. Haven't you ever noticed that? Two times in twelve years, you said you'd find this girl no matter what. And you did. Why? Because you gave your word, babe. And that might not mean shit to the rest of the world, but it means everything to you. Whatever else hapened today, you found her twice, Patrick. When no one else would even try.
~ Dennis Lehane
I can't think of one reason big enough for them to lie and small enough for it not to matter.
~ Dennis Lehane