Quotes About Honesty

Joe, if people behave well, the truth can't harm them. If they behave badly – correction, if they behave badly and then try to cover that behaviour up, then in my opinion they deserve everything they get.

You're probably right,' I said, but to be honest, I had forgotten to be a Communist that night.

If you wish to hide your character, do not play golf.

None talked that common, false, cold, hollow talk which makes the heart deny the yes it breathes.

His lips in truth-entangling lines which smiled he lie his tongue disdained to speak.

Freedom is a clear conscience.

Be thankful when you made the right choices and admit it when you didn't.

You gotta respect a girl who realizes that romantic relationships are built on lies and goes to town with it!

fill the holes with facts, not flowers.

It is now 55 years since my last book report, which is a long time to live with a guilty conscience. So here it is: In the spring of 1956 I wrote a highly favorable review of the Bible without reading a word of it, and it was the last A I ever got in English. Why it has taken so long to come clean I'm not sure, except I have always been extremely sensitive about my academic reputation.

The best bit of advice I ever received about how to pray was this: keep it simple, keep it real, keep it up.

I will live my life from now on, I will not perform it.

Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.

That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead?

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.

Wiggy & I were drug buddies. There is no tighter compact for friendship. There is no greater potential for deceit.

a lie, once uttered, changes reality just as surely as if it were a great truth.

It's too easy to be stupid, and too easy to wake up in the morning with the feeling you said something that had more to do with want and despair than need.

each technique carries a consistent message more important than any method: that each act that expresses trust in ourselves and belief in the validity of our own experience is always the right path to follow. Each act that is manipulative or filled with pretense is always self-destructive.

Community-as-problems-to-be-solved has some benefits. It values the ability to implement, is big on doing, has a certain honesty about it, and worships tangible results as the ultimate blessing. You might say that this is what has gotten us this far. It is not that this (or any other) context is wrong; it just does not have the power to bring something new into the world.

So," he said, after he had taken a bite "you're not going to tell me?" "Not going to tell you what?" "Whether or not you're gay." "No," I said. "Why should I? Did you tell your parents?" "I wasn't gay," said my father. "I was straight." "So, what, if you're gay you have a moral obligation to inform your parents and if you're straight you don't?

The real problem is writers' refusal to take full and open responsibility for what they are saying. If a writer is willing to say, in effect, "I'm me, I'm saying this, and I'm saying it to you," his words will not just have more life in them, they will also be clearer and more coherent. The

Church is too often the most risky place to be spiritually honest.

A relationship based on trust means not walking on eggshells, but talking openly, honestly, with no hint of passive-aggressiveness or any of the other dysfunctional manipulative tactics we tend to impose on family and friends.