Quotes About Honesty

I'm a firm believer that ultimately the truth cannot hurt you. It can bring you pain, heartache, and sadness but it cannot destroy the person you are. It can bring you understanding of whom and what you are.

I can also be kind of an asshole. ("Kind of" = in the 70 percent–80 percent range.)

Once I started telling the truth, it was hard to stop.

She knows SecUnit is not so much taunting her with its abilities as refusing to pretend to be anything other than it is. And that's for the best, because being honest about that is the only way forward.

I'll try to be more accurate. I was indifferent, and vaguely annoyed. Do you believe that?

Pin-Lee had promised, "Don't worry, I'll preserve your right to wander off like an asshole anytime you like.")

Agnes Tattle was the only person he'd ever met who was strong enough to look life right in the eye and spit. It must be the mathematics in her background. Such courageous realism certainly didn't come from the study of English literature.

Lighthouses Point the Way Home This above all: To thine own self be true… —William Shakespeare

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.

Mundus vult decipi. The world winks at dishonesty. The world does not call it dishonesty.

But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there may dawn in him the presentiment of a world-wide dialogue with the world-happening that steps up to him even in his environment, which consists partially of things. Or do you seriously think that the giving and taking of signs halts on the threshold of that business where an honest and open spirit is found?

There are three principles in a man's being and life: The principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

Your such a cynic. Exactly, that's what you call a guy who tells you the truth.

One thing you learn in my job is that the truth is usually the last thing people want to emerge. Guilty or innocent, it doesn't matter. Everyone has something to hide.

Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.

Nature's own Nobleman, friendly and frank,Is a man with his heart in his hand!

But to be honest, I didn't share these ethical concerns.

Visit any comedy club, or watch Bridesmaids, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy or Louis CK's routines on YouTube, and you'll realize that Americans pay comedians millions of dollars to talk about things most of them have felt, or thought, but never said in public. In

sponsors are letting us know that it's futile to hide, duck,

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Peace if possible. Truth at all costs.

I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.