Quotes About Honesty

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

a clean honesty about our otherness that feels not like the moral but the story.

Whenever people say they hate to say something, they actually love to say it.

Rumors to frighten honest men.

I wouldn't have believed her, but she's never dissembled. She doesn't have the energy for it, and she isn't trying to get anywhere, so she has no reason to lie or manipulate people. It's one of

Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward. To really do it, you needed someone's help.

Commander Ga went on, "I know you pretended to be asleep one morning to give me more time to study you, to allow me to see the knot in your collarbone where someone had hurt you. You let me see the scars on your knees, scars that tell me you once knew real work. You wanted me to know the real you.

What happened?" Buc asked him. "I told her the truth about something," Ga answered. "You've got to stop doing that," Buc said. "It's bad for people's health.

'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.

You only taste your own dignity right before you puke it up.

Nothing last forever, but be honest babe, it hurts but it may be the only way.

It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.

I understand the fear surrounding this topic, but the fear is misplaced. We shouldn't be afraid of speaking about this, we should be more afraid of what not speaking about this can lead to. It can ruin relationships, destroy families, and in the most dire circumstances it can end lives.

Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It's for the same reason why we don't like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art is shocking or suspicious."

There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It's like, 'Just let them run it, then. Don't you give them ammunition.'

When we are rested, we notice desires as well as lies buried in our souls.

19You shall not judge unfairly: you shall show no partiality; you shall not take bribes, for bribes blind the eyes of the discerning and upset the plea of the just.

if we want to stop showing favoritism, we first have to be aware that we feel it. We need to be honest enough to admit the truth to ourselves. Knowing our bias immediately puts us in a better position to protect our "less favored children"; and it helps us protect our favored child, as well, from the pressure of having to maintain his position and from the inevitable hostility of his siblings.

I have the feeling Heather is going to be "expressing herself" a lot more in the future, and I'm sure I won't like everything I hear; but in the long run, I still think it's more important for her to be real than to have to continue being "mother's joy.

Truth is a bit like depression. It creeps up on you. You don't notice it, you can keep denying it, but once it lands, it's indisputable

hold opinions because I believe them, not to be cool, controversial or compliant.

Tou said that

We speak with hideous honesty. A pair of women who have been the very best to one another and now the worst.

Thus it is written in the Talmud: "He who translates a passage as it seems to be, is a deceiver.