Quotes About Honesty

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Quand la vérité est remplacée par le silence, le silence est un mensonge

Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.

But, to begin with, I am incapable of jokes, for every joke contains a lie as an implicit function.

I simply can't make jokes - the default value of every joke is a lie.

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.

Not knowing is okay, he had once said, but pretending to know is not.

For some people a façade is necessary even with friends

I don't think truth ever tastes good to anyone's palate.

A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

If your presence doesn't work, neither will your word.

When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the whole world to see.

Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

The truth is an accepted lie.

Yeah, it's easy to say stuff. But, meaning what you say is something else. Right, Aunt Mito?

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The Fool or Knave that wears a title, lies.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy.