Quotes About Honesty

What a terrible thing for a man to believe! Since when is dishonesty a group characteristic? You have no monopoly on the truth.

I never set out to make myself unpopular; I just say what I think, so I sometimes rub people up the wrong way, particularly people who parade their ideals before them like a banner and use them to hide behind. And I will keep on saying what I think. I am not prepared to abandon my self-determined existence for an ideology or an ideal.

La lecture de tous les bons livres est comme une conversation avec les plus honnêtes gens des siècles passés.

It is prudent never to trust those who have deceived us, even if only once.

It is just as valuable to be censured by friends as it is splendid to be praised by enemies. We desire praise from those who do not know us, but from friends we want the truth.

That the reading of good books, is like the conversation with the honestest persons of the past age, who were the Authors of them, and even a studyed conversation, wherein they discover to us the best only of their thoughts. That eloquence hath forces & beauties which are incomparable.

He cannot be a deceiver, since the light of nature teaches us that fraud and deception necessarily proceed from some defect.

Authenticity inspires. Just be real

Follow the truth and you will never get lost."

Love just feels like the truth

Real is the new beautiful

Your authenticity is the gateway to all good things

My father always said that it is a reasonable expectation of life that no one will go out of his way, against his own interest, to break his word or to hurt another person. And this turns out, not just in obvious cases, for example haters, pathological people and institutions, sadists, but in everyday life itself to be plain untrue. I wonder why. A reasonable expectation of life, I have found, is hardly ever quite borne out.

He lived on frankness and economy.

Cheat at this game.

It was the strangest feeling, to be convicted but not condemned. God had torn him down but then had slowly built him back up. He had crushed him and then restored him. The more honest Clay became, the more God revealed to him the condition of his heart—a heart born into darkness, a heart that had trusted in the ways of the world.

Find my weak points, but more importantly, find yours.

Y'all carried secrets because that's what I taught you, but secrets . . . just . . . fester

You're such a cheater. The best wood in your golf bag is your pencil!

No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.

More people saying what they believe would be a great improvement. Because I often do I am unfit for common intercourse.-Nero Wolfe in "Blood Will Tell

Don't overdo it. There are numerous layers of honesty, and the deepest should not have a monopoly.

Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.

Victims are never honest with themselves