Quotes About Honesty

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them.

And when she said, Father, I love you , she was neither naive nor dishonest, but the opposite: she was wise and truthful enough to lie.

She laughed, I love it when she laughs, although the truth is I am not in love with her.

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

Brod's life was a slow realisation that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time.

Ci promise che tutto sarebbe andato bene. Anche se ero una bambina sapevo che non sarebbe andato così. Ma questo non faceva di mio padre un bugiardo. Faceva di lui mio padre.

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

But I loved them. I loved the truth they conveyed: that kids aren't yet able to fake it. Or they aren't yet able to conceal their disingenuousness. They're wonderful smilers, the best; but they're the very worst fake smilers. The inability to fake a smile defines childhood.

Mark had said it wasn't too late in life for happiness. When, in Julia's life, would it be late enough for honesty? It was amazing how little changed as everything changed. The conversation was continually expanding, but it was no longer clear what they were talking about.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

I should perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principal design was to inform you, and not to amuse you.

truth, justice, temperance, and

who, if a resolution could now be taken to buy only our native goods, would immediately unite to cheat and exact upon us in the price, the measure, and the goodness, nor could ever yet be brought to make one fair proposal of just dealing, though often and earnestly invited to it. Therefore I repeat, let no man talk to me of these and the like expedients, till he has at least some glimpse of hope that there will be ever some hearty and sincere attempt to put them into practice.

Es muy perjudicial tratar de empujarnos a sentir cosas que no sentimos, actuar como si las sintiéramos. Porque los sentimientos no se eligen, suceden.

Espero ser juzgado por lo que he escrito, no por lo que he dicho o me han hecho decir. Yo soy sincero en este momento, pero quizás dentro de media hora ya no esté de acuerdo con lo que he dicho.

El problema no es que mientas. El problema es que te creo

But I will relate what happened with absolute honesty; that, perhaps, will help me understand it. After all, when one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

But I will relate what happened with absolute honesty; that, perhaps, will help me understand it. After all, when one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a person that observes and narrates it and no longer the person that performed it.

You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

Can a lie be taken as communication? I tend to deny it. A lie is the opposite of communication. It means specifically to withhold the other's share and portion of reality, to prevent his participation in reality.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

lies are what the world lives on, and those who can face the challenge of a truth and build their lives to accord are finally not many, but the very few.

He who tells the truth will lose friends. A Wise Man

The Path of the Heart is the Hardest to take, for the Heart will not Fool, and the Heart will not Fake.