Quotes About Honesty

Richelle E. Goodrich

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

When you face yourself, you face the truth of who you are.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.

A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.

Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.

Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.

Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.

... stop trying to get me to write about 'decent courageous people' -- read the Ladies' Home Journal for those! ... I believe in going through and facing the worst, not hiding from it.

I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.