Quotes About Honesty

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. ~Ernest Hemingway

Remember this—your outward behavior is the truth, whereas your inner perception of your behavior is often an illusion.

A lot of times people use the excuse that they don't want to hurt another person's feelings. This is always a lie. If you ever catch yourself thinking this, what's really happening is that you're protecting yourself from your own feelings. You're avoiding what you will feel when they get upset. It is the coward's way out, and it simply delays having all your cards on the table.

The special operations culture is unique in its willingness to ignore rank when it comes to providing brutally honest assessments of an action.

When truth is replaced by a lie, the truth is a lie." ? Jack Cohen

I was always a liar. But one thing I failed to realize about being a liar is that you know when you are deceiving someone else, but when you deceive yourself you believe you are telling the truth.

I know I'm not perfect, but I didn't think it was fair that they told me one thing and wrote down another.

She was always more fair to me than I was to her, and somehow this kept me from being totally honest with her.

Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.

The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.

No matter what the world around you wants, there is only one person you can be true to, and that is yourself.

As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life. A

And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.

I am deficient in character, and if I had more of it, I would be ashamed of the fact.

Show me a man of unflinching rectitude and I'll show you a man who hasn't been offered his price.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

You want the truth? You can't handle the truth

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave

If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.

you should regularly ask your staff, employees, and customers: "Can you tell me something I don't want to hear?

Candor is never indiscreet. Truth, which is to say, the reflection of life, is beautiful.