Quotes About Honesty

He would have made an excellent politician or statesman but had unfortunately been cursed from birth with an unshakable incorruptibility and moral integrity. The

I am not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do. No mystique.

I have no desire ... to preach a high-minded and merely edifying version of love

I simply try to act as an honest broker for greater persons and writers than I am ... I present no theory, nor do I have one ... I have constructed no Schema ... in terms of the struggle between Eros and agape and the futility of the former in the face of the latter. I have no aspirations, hoping only to show you what some great writers thought these things are.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

Honesty compels serious men, on examination of their consciences, to admit that the old faith is no longer compelling. It is the very peak of Christian virtue that demands the sacrifice of Christianity.

Los que temerán el confesarse discípulos de la verdad, no son dignos de ser admitidos en el reino de la verdad". Perderán el beneficio de su fe, porque es una fe egoísta que guardan para ellos mismos, pero que la ocultan por miedo de que les ocasione perjuicio en este mundo, mientras que aquellos que colocando la verdad sobre sus intereses materiales la proclaman abiertamente, trabajan al mismo tiempo para su porvenir y para el de los otros.

Most men, if they're going to lie to a woman, would be far better off doing it over the phone, in a letter, or with all the lights off and a blanket over their heads.

Character is who you are when no one is looking.

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

How deceived do you have to be to be blind and naked and not know it? This isn't a subtle thing.

The truth may be inconvenient, but it's better than anything else.

The truth may hurt, but lies can destroy.

Trust is a fragile thing, easily broken, and hard to mend.

keeping secrets will tear you up inside.

Bluntness is a virtue.

It sucks that he did that to you." "I was consenting." Cleo didn't know why she kept excusing the situation with that. Consenting and unethical were two different things.

she never lied to them, never told them things they wanted to hear just to gain their votes. Almost inevitably when you glossed over difficult truths, it meant that you got their votes but eventually lost their trust, and that was not a viable long-term plan. It

Faking it in front of a guy's family is hardly a common occurrence in my life. How about yours?" FAKING IT TO MAKING IT

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.

You cannot con an honest man.

Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.