Quotes About Honesty

When I don't know what I'm doing, I look like I don't know what I'm doing. When I'm excited or nervous, I look excited or nervous. And when I am lost, which is frequently, I look lost. My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought.

What is better; uncomfortable truths or comfortable lies? Everything is a kindness even if it makes others uncomfortable. Every untruth is an unknown even if it makes others uncomfortable.

Di la verdad, di la verdad, di la verdad».

Oh, Jesus. How do you get out of this one? You don't. You can't get out of this one. Unless you're able to be honest, which of course I could not do.

Just say what you want to say, then, and say it with all your heart.

Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.

I am a whore, she said. And in addition to that, I am not a nice woman. But despite these facts, my word is gold.

I didn't know how cold I was," she admitted after a time. "You mean that interesting shade of blue isn't lipstick?

I'm living in the same house as someone who views secrets as personal pets, to be fed, cosseted, and possibly bred to produce litters of little secrets. Kindly don't add new ones to the kennel.

Should I tell you the truth I know, or try to guess the untruth you want?

I'm not saying Barra's bad, exactly, but I am saying you think she's good at heart because you like her and want her to be good at heart. It doesn't work that way. If you don't learn to see people as they are, you'll get hurt someday.

that was Evelyn's weakness. She was too kind, and too truthful. Both, I have found, are inconvenient character traits.

But that was Evelyn's weakness. She was too kind, and too truthful. Both, I have found, are inconvenient character traits.

If all this seems too tough, then the solution is simple: don't run for office. The American people should never have to worry about whether the decisions made by public officials are driven by public interest or by their own personal finance interest.

But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.

Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who could let it all slide by. What I stopped realizing was that if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Everything registers at the same decibel...

I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm

Yes, there was a certain beautiful honesty to my depressed state—I miss it sometimes now. I miss having so little stake in maintaining the status quo that I could walk out of rooms in tears at times that other people would have deemed inappropriate. I liked that about myself. I liked that disregard for convention.

one of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved. as it happens, i come from a family where no one every hesitated to vent whatever petty grievances she might have, and it's like living in a war zone.

Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.

There is comfort in knowing that you don't have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.

People don't need to be forced to grow. All we need is favorable circumstances: respect, love, honesty, and the space to explore.

Well, a man can but hold fast to what he believes right, and even the opponent he baulks should value him for that.

He said likewiseThat a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies,That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.