Quotes About Honesty

I tell you everything." "Nothing that matters.

You know you'd rather read about me than experience me in person. Why pretend?

the difference between him and her was her capacity for self-deception.

The idea was that God was to be found in relationships, not in liturgy and ritual, and that the way to worship Him and approach Him was to emulate Christ in his relationships with his disciples, by exercising honesty, confrontation, and unconditional love.

To her the strangest thought of all was that she might be extraordinarily appealing. It went against everything she believed in, or at least against everything she wanted to believe in; because, deep down, in her most honest heart, maybe every person considered herself extraordinarily appealing. Maybe this was just a human thing.

Noriu tikr? dalyk? arba nenoriu nieko.

But what you are saying now, the way you're speaking to me - there's a level to this that I never saw when you were in the group. A level of honesty, vulnerability. If you could have opened yourself up like this even once… It's kind of amazing to see it now.

simply by trying to speak honestly, surrendering to emotion, supporting other people in their honesty and emotion, she experienced her first glimmerings of spirituality.

It is always better to clear the air, even if the air often stinks.

There may be mistakes in the choice of means to attain an end. But success or failure also involves much that lies beyond our power. We are not responsible for the inevitable, nor for a knowledge that is beyond our reach. Solely the ends, honestly chosen, and consistently sought, determine the moral quality of a life.

The clacking of the checkers on the hardwood points was the music of honest thought, resounding in silence as it navigated the fortunes told by the pips on the dice.

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?

Try to live so that you can always tell the truth.

It's always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

My feelings have never once cared about what they should be.

We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?

We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don't care if we're lying. I am a bad person. I don't care. I don't care what you are.

It is dangerous to pretend that we know more than we do. But it is even more dangerous to pretend that we know less.

Being reliable is something. Being good.

You used to write such honest books. Honest and emotionally ambitious. Maybe they weren't finding millions of readers. Maybe they weren't making you rich. But they were making the world rich