Quotes About Honesty

Let people feel the weight of who you are, and let them deal with it.

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation.

Truth is omnipotent.

They are, mostly, sane people who are telling their story truthfully.

So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof

The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society.

She was a mirror that did not lie; whose interest in me was real; whose love was real.

If you feel something deeply, you're not ashamed to show your feeling.

Come clean Charles, come clean

and like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being honest would bring

I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing, I love being to the full

I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing, I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

Accepting the sadness. Knowing that to pretend it was all gay was treachery. Treachery to everyone sad at the moment, everyone ever sad, treachery to such music, such truth.

Ever read this? Let's cut corners. To hell with literature. You're clever and I'm beautiful. Now let's talk about who we really are.

our hearts, we saw that as a lie, no doubt

The definition of integrity is this: Being what I say I am by acting in accordance with my words.

Most of our caste in this country, if they only knew it, are Confucian rather than Christian. Belief in ancestors, and tradition, respect for parents, honesty, moderation of conduct, kind treatment of animals and dependents, absence of self-obtrusion, and stoicism in face of pain and death.

FROME. What was the nature of your relations with him? RUTH. We were friends. THE JUDGE. Friends? RUTH. [Simply] Lovers, sir. THE JUDGE. [Sharply] In what sense do you use that word? RUTH. We love each other.

Some couples fight all the time, and gradually their love dies. On the other extreme, some couples suppress their honest feelings in order to avoid conflict and not argue. As a result of suppressing their true feelings they lose touch with their loving feelings as well. One couple is having a war while the other is having a cold war.

Making some of these changes may at first feel awkward or even manipulative. Many people have the idea that love means "saying it like it is." This overly direct approach, however, does not take into account the listener's feelings. One can still be honest and direct about feelings but express them in a way that doesn't offend or hurt.

In the struggle for life, a taste for truth is a luxury--or else a disability.

Also, I'm not going to be devastated or anything either way. I'm not that kind of person. I just think if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I—" she says, but then I hold up my finger, because I need to hear the thing she just said, and she talks too fast for me to keep up. I keep holding up my hand, thinking if you don't say the honest thing, it never becomes true.

Ethics are determined by what they catch you doing. If you don't get caught, then you haven't violated any ethics.