Quotes About Honesty

Well, I just think that is the problem, you put up with it instead of speaking your mind.

Why should being quiet mean you're in love? Because, she said. That means you aren't nervous with each other, or affected, or likely to be hiding intentions behind too much conversation. A friendly silence can speak between two who will walk together a long way, she said.

I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.

No sería sincero ni correcto, sería negar… todo lo que sentimos la una por la otra. Ellas son mayores, tal vez tuvieran que hacerlo, pero… Ay, Liza, yo no quiero esconder la… la mejor parte de mi vida, de mí misma.

Te lo digo en serio: me gusta tu cuarto. Me gusta tu abuela, me gustas tú… —A mí también me gustas, Liza

oh, Liza, I don't want to hide the—the best part of my life, of myself.

Chad kept kidding me that I was in love, and asking with whom, and then Sally and Walt did, too, and after a while I didn't even mind, because even if they had the wrong idea about it, they were right. Soon it wasn't hard any more to say it—to myself, I mean, as well as over and over again to Annie—and to accept her saying it to me.

Know the truth," Ms. Widmer used to quote—remember we used to say it to each other?—"and the truth will make you free.

I don't want to pretend any more. You make me—want to be real.

I read somewhere the other day that love is good as long as it's honest and unselfish and hurts no one.

But the "best" lies are those that look the most like the Truth. The "newest" lies are the oldest ones.

Poet David Whyte once said that if we're living the life we truly want to live, someone we love will feel betrayed

Most of us can stay away from doing wrong but few of us take the challenge of doing right

Dishonesty and hedging the truth are too much work. I realize some may take offense, but I've determined that I don't require the friendship of those who do.

Most of us can stay away from doing wrong, but few of us take on the challenge of doing right.

The point is to be compassionately, not cruelly, honest. Tell the person what you have heard that worries you. Allow him to respond. You may be surprised at how much sense his answers make.

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

I feel more at peace with being angry than practicing forgiveness. That never was an honest emotion for me. It was always someone else's concept of what I should do.

Yet one could speak truth and still be a villain

absolutely did not. "Door stays open," she

It's been a while since someone last made her laugh. Since she last laughed without deciding beforehand that laughing was the smart thing to do.

truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn't come and listen.

Conversely, if the claim is rejected, the honest scientist is expected to accept that judgment, and move on to other things. In science, you don't get to keep harping on a subject until your opponents just give up in exhaustion.

I don't think you're supposed to speak ill of the dead." "When the dead are spineless bastards who don't take care of their own children, I'll say whatever the fuck I want.