Quotes About Honesty

phony to force oneself to be jolly just because it happens to be marked on the calendar.

Sharing your life with someone for whom your feelings are shaky at best—how can that be anything but a lie, a betrayal? Do you have even the faintest notion of what life looks like when the person you're with treats you like a stranger?

Ä°nsan bir kere yalan söylemeye baÅŸlad? m? nerede duraca??n? bilmez. (Le Voleur d'ombres)

I think it's phony to force oneself to be jolly just because it happens to be marked on the calendar.

People don't talk to each other about real things because they're afraid of how they'll be judged.

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

People don't talk to each other about real things because they're afraid of how they'll be judged. Or

Tant de lâcheté et de mensonge me font monter le cœur aux lèvres.

It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.

Assim trocamos palavras mentirosas. Mas uma verdade mais profunda do que a que diríamos se fôssemos sinceros pode às vezes ser expressa e anunciada por outro meio que não o da sinceridade.

we know from our own shortcomings, towards other people, how little an oath is worth. And we have deliberately believed them when they came from her, the very person to whose interest it has always been to lie to us, and whom, moreover, we did not select for her virtues.

pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.

Even from the point of view of coquetry, pure and simple," he had told her, "can't you see how much of your attraction you throw away when you stoop to lying?

Comme nous ne sommes tous, nous les vivants, que des morts qui ne sont pas encore entrés en fonctions, toutes ces politesses, toutes ces salutations dans le vestibule que nous appelons déférence, gratitude, dévouement et où nous mêlons tant de mensonges, sont stériles et fatigantes.

Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

Let her [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.

know, that so far to distrust' the judgement and the honesty of one who hath but a common repute in Learning and never yet offended, as not to count him fit to print his mind without a tutor and examiner lest he should drop a schism or something of corruption, is the greatest displeasure and indignity to a free and knowing spirit that can be put upon him.

Who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

For who knows not that Truth is strong..; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licencings to make her victorious.

Had anyone written and divulged erroneous things and scandalous to honest life, misusing and forfeiting the esteem had of his reason among men, if after conviction this only censure were adjudged him that he should never henceforth write

Let the flame of anger free you of all falsity.

One of the questions that John loved to pose was "when was your last great conversation with someone?" Good conversation chases the truth of things, it demolishes the flimsy foundation of facade, and it penetrates the depths so as to soar unto unfolding possibility.

C. S. Lewis wrote that in prayer we must "lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

The fundamental issues are treaties, power and capital. Are we able to be honest enough with ourselves to accept this? Do we want a settlement or not? The shape and direction of the country depends on how we act. This must become a political issue.