Quotes About Honesty

La hipocresía es un vicio, pero no estoy tan convencido de que la franqueza sea siempre una virtud.

De modo que, perdida la esperanza de creerme inteligente o apasionado, me queda la menos presuntuosa de saberme sincero. Para saberme sincero he empezado estas notas, en las que castigo mi mediocridad son mi propio y objetivo testimonio.

Además sé que con él no voy a callar. Quiero desconfiar del sobreentendido, del pudor y de la vergüenza. Esta vez quiero decirlo todo, lo exquisito y lo repugnante, para que nada quede abandonado a la imaginación, para que nada pueda traicionarnos

De pronto me di cuenta de que tanto ella como yo estábamos hablando con una franqueza hiriente que amenazaba traspasar la sinceridad y convertirse en un casi equivalente de la hipocresía.

Lo único que no engaña (así, como rasgo aislado) es la mirada.

Lo que en un ambiente es simplemente honrado, en otro puede ser simplemente imbécil.

La estricta realidad me aburre, y el arte me parece hábil, pero nunca eficaz, nunca legítimo. Tan sólo un ingenuo recurso que ciertos tipos desengañados, sinvergüenzas o melancólicos usan para mentirse o, lo que es peor aún, para mentirme. Y no quiero mentirme. Quiero saber todo acerca de mi mismo.

Hay que ser más modesto cuando uno se enfrenta, cuando uno se confiesa a sí mismo, cuando uno se acerca a su última verdad, que aún puede llegar a ser más decisiva que la voz de la conciencia, porque ésta sufre de afonías, de imprevistas ronqueras, que a menudo le impiden ser audible.

Cuántas palabras, sólo para decir que no quiero parecer patético.

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.

Clare wasn't worried anymore about their being mean to each other. She imagined that someday she'd be part of a friendship in which she and the friend thought so highly of each other and were so sure of this that they could say anything.

Nowadays, I want to be smart, but back then, I'm afraid I wanted to seem smart, too.

Never, ever lie, unless it's to spare someone's feelings or to weasel out of something you really don't want to do, but only if not doing that something will not result in bodily or even psychic harm to another human being, unless that human being is exceptionally mean in which case minor psychic harm is permissible"—my

To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.

Words are reflections. What we speak comes back to us. I prefer being told the truth, so I tell the truth. Within reason.

Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.

Everyone is a psychoanalyst, it would seem, and they try to dig beneath words. I say what I mean. There is no subtext. I

Judge not, by the extent of one's wealth, but by the means used to obtain it.

Having told the truth for years as a first-rate reporter, Jason Leopold now comes completely clean about himself and also sheds light on his imperiled profession. A riveting account of just how hard the truth can be.

When we apologize and confess to others, we communicate that we do not think we are superior, while we also communicate that there are standards by which we are seeking to live.

So that's the balance that we want to see—honesty, urgency, and joy. Honesty and urgency with no joy gives us a grim determination (read Philippians). Honesty and joy with no urgency gives us a carelessness about time (read 2 Peter). And urgency and joy with no honesty leads us into distorted claims about immediate benefits of the gospel (read 1 Peter).

Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is calling God a liar because He's the One Who says we also need human friends.

He has done the best he could in a difficult situation, and his conscience is clean. It is far more important to be trustworthy than to seem trustworthy, a lesson he learnt from a lanky man named Strider long ago