Quotes About Honesty

A fib such as the above did nobody any harm, while a lie was deliberate, told to save yourself or to gain an unfair advantage.

To give an estimate is to say something you don't know absolutely to be true, and therefore it is to tell a lie, something geeks find deeply painful.

You should never tell your best friend anything you wouldn´t be prepared to tell your worst enemy.

I'm not conceited. I'm just honest about being so much better than other people.

Apologizing is a concrete action that deepens trust, respect and intimacy

We're genetically pulled to people who radiate warmth, honesty and compassion. We're repelled by external presentations of perfection…The perfection of others makes us feel inadequate.

Be true to yourself" - Ven Zallow

Afternoon tea needn't stand on ceremony. Anything that becomes more important than sweet fellowship, whether lace or linen or the china itself, is pretense. How much more we enjoy life when the pretenses are discarded!

You are consistently dishonorable and therefore immensely trustworthy. You always eschew principle and reward venality.

subtlety sometimes eludes me. Why not just hit the nail on the head?

Chrissy turned to me, leaned over, and gave me a peck on the cheek. "What's that for?" I asked. "For being a man I can look up to without lying on my back.

I'm a grinder. I am not called to speak at fancy conventions in five-star hotels. The governor has not offered me black robes and elevated me to the bench. I am not interviewed by CNN to comment on the latest trial of the century. And I am not rich.

If you can't keep a promise to a loved one, you probably aren't going to keep the loved one, either.

Man is never so foolish as when he fools himself.

A doctor asks a patient how much he drinks and how often he has sex. To get the truth, multiply the former by two and divide the latter by three. The waiter brought our broiled snapper

Magna est veritas. Great is truth.

Sometimes the truth will not set you free. Sometimes it will send you away for life.

A lawyer needs to know the truth. No, strike that. I can't speak for my brethren. I need to know the truth.

Feelings are best handled by expressing them, and worst handled by denying them, by pretending they don't exist.

keep principles before personalities.7 We adhere to the principle of honestly stating our feelings, but we do not discuss personalities.

That's why it's difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal.

Motto: true to myself, false to others (excepting one person).

There are others, honest men beyond all doubt and sincerely concerned with their people's welfare, who seem to feel that it is the duty of a leader to discourage Negro mass action. They think that best results can be achieved by the quiet negotiations they carry on. And so when something happens that arouses the masses of people, and when the people gather in righteous anger to demand that militant actions be started, such men believe it their duty to cool things off.

One always saw and sees through pretense.