Quotes About Honesty

You will know the truth and the truth will set you free.

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

Sincerity is the way of Heaven.

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.

It's impossible to write about yourself when you're hiding.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true I was raised in a freight car.

A young homosexual friend recently said, "It's no secret that you, that one, has such-and-such color hair, is yea high, weighs thus and so, and so on, but when you keep one part of yourself secret, that becomes the most important part of you." And that is true, I think; it may be the most important truth of all.

Never pretend to understand what you don't understand," Orion used to say, "and never let anybody tell you you should like something. You can educate your taste, but you can't change it. So trust it.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Ne želimo svjedoka za naše slabosti, a ako ih pred nekim krijemo, zašto bismo ga nazivali prijateljem?

All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.

Cada um de nós foi uma mentira, mas nós os dois fomos verdade.

A melhor maneira de mentir é ficar calado.

I don't think of myself as a writer. I'm troubled and stupid like everyone else. I grew up with the streets. I have dead friends, friends in prison, friends who are prostitutes, on drugs, drunk, married to shitty men. I write because I need to write, to make sense of life. Honesty is everything to me.

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.

Don't pretend to ask for advice when you're looking for vindication.

Write the book description in third person and present tense. As if you're sitting face-to-face with a browser who just asked you what the book is about.

Classical philosophy holds that perpetual agreement with another person is incompatible with friendship. Because no two people can possibly agree on everything, someone who never expresses disagreement with you is acting insincerely - and true friendship requires sincerity above almost everything else.

he knew in his heart he was not a prejudiced person. "So once that's given, once you know what you think, there's no reason to be ginger about what you say," he said. "A lot of people, they're very careful not to say things that might offend certain people or do anything that might be misinterpreted. But what they don't realize is that the point of all this is to change the way you live your life, not the way you speak.

He wasn't afraid of being laughed at—but he wasn't being comical

A woman sternly said, "Because women want honesty until you tell them something they don't want to hear!

honorific pronoun.

The dirtiest actions should be carried out by the most honest men.