Quotes About Honesty

You're as sick as your secrets.

Substance abusers lie about everything, and usually do an awesome job of it." Stephen King once wrote. "It's the liar's disease." Nic once told me, quoting an AA platitude, "An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie about it. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it." Part of me is convinced that he actually believes that he will find it for you.

Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing

Everyone lies. Murderers lie because they have to; witnesses and other participants lie because they think they have to; everyone else lies for the sheer joy of it, and to uphold a general principle that under no circumstances do you provide accurate information to a cop.

We had no interest in saying what our audience wanted to hear. In fact, we wanted to tell them the opposite … and we did! The people on the side of the Truth will always end up with no audience. The liars will always have their huge audience. That's the difference between truth and lies. How will we make ourselves more popular? I know … we'll use emojis! Not!

Leaders of the world, my message to you is simple: to achieve universal peace and understanding on this planet you have only to speak plainly, even though you may look foolish. This is a thousand times better than looking good and talking nonsense.

They didn't believe me," I exclaimed when I saw Gary. "I told the truth, but they didn't want to hear!

be strict in what you will accept before you begin, and promise as little as possible in return.

Al final de la vida nos renace la pasión de la infancia por recibir regalos, mearnos encima y decir la verdad.

Los políticos, como los niños, tienden a mentir como primera reacción. Es natural. La mentira es un manto que resguarda en primera instancia. Pero la verdad es terca y muerde con dientes afilados.

The best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemy who, under the specious . . . garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate or defend them.

be included among those Americans the modern theologian Donald W. Shriver Jr. has called "honest patriots," those who manifest an ironic-tragic love of country by learning, narrating, and working through its past of contradiction and evil, and not by evading it.

As the philosopher Baroness Onora O'Neill has said, 'If we are to place or refuse trust we need either unmediated evidence of others' honesty, competence or reliability or mediated evidence that can be checked.

It's easy to be a lame nigga, it's harder to be a real one…

the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.

Iniziamo a essere credibili nel momento in cui siamo trasparenti e ammettiamo di essere non infallibili.

a more open and honest appraisal of the true nature of Silicon Valley and its opportunities as well as the many problems.

Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are.

Crotch-punchingly real!

I'm not a nice guy. But I am on your side. Don't confuse the two. You hate me because I'm blunt and have no patience for wasted time or wasted words. Because I'm not nice. Well, a lot of nice people are nice because they've figured out it's a great way to get things from other people. Some of the slimiest snakes I've run across have been nice. So let me tell you now, if you ever see me resort to being nice, run.

There's no debt. There never has been. We are friends.

The more you feel the need to signal your virtue, the more you expose your real lack of it

The love you make is equal to the love you fake.

There are never any victims of the truth, unless you believe truth to be subjective, then of course, the truth has nothing but victims.