Quotes About Honesty

He shut his eyes. "What an idiot I was up there. Stupid, naïve . . . and slow, slow, slow to understand." "Honest, perhaps?" Dobrowski said. Halperin was angry, but not with Dobrowski. "Isn't honesty in a situation like that plain stupidity?

He shut his eyes. "What an idiot I was up there. Stupid, naïve . . . and slow, slow, slow to understand." "Honest, perhaps?" Dobrowski said. Halperin was angry, but not with Dobrowski. "Isn't honesty in a situation like that plain stupidity? I could have lied. I could have continued to lie.

Don't just tell people that you charge fixed fees, show them. Go that extra step and publish your prices on your website.

Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

Anyone who tells a lie has not pure heart, and cannot make good soup.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.

The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order. The robber, on the other hand, is intent, not on honest toil, but on the forcible appropriation of the fruits of others' labor.

In science, compromise is a betrayal of truth.

This is the necessary unavoidable consequence of the fact that, according to Marxist doctrine, you do not consider the possibility of dissent among honest people; either you think as I do, or you are a traitor and must be liquidated.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

a witness is defined through what he sees, not what he says. And just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.

Only the liar knows that he's lying.

Here's what girlfriends do for you: they provide the reality check. They are the ones who tell you when you have spinach between your teeth or when your ass looks fat in a pair of jeans or when you're being a bitch. They tell you, and there's no drama or agenda, like there would be if the message had come from your husband. They tell you the truth because you need to hear it, but it doesn't alter the bond between you.

Is it really lying if all you're doing is keeping your mouth shut, about something that's nobody's business anyway?

The best lies are the ones that are wrapped around a core of truth.

Only cheats go back on a promise.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

It is amazing how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

you cannot take something i trust you with and use it against me -- plain truth