Quotes About Honesty

You don't have to pay tax on bullshit

Benim endi?em ?u ki, kand?rmak aleni bir ?ekilde insanlar?n ya?am ?ekli haline geldi?inde, bu ister bir ki?i olsun, ister bir ülke, herkes aldatman?n kurban? haline gelir.

No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.

The whole house is spic and span and everybody's supposed to be real honest and full of what he calls 'the good'. We even leave food out for the mice in the rafters so they won't have to sin by stealing. And you know what happens when dinner's over? Everybody hunches over and licks his place clean so none of God's grace will be wasted.

Bueno, todos los pacientes son, en cierto modo, unos mentirosos. Vienen a mi consulta porque sus mentiras les hacen sufrir. El paciente que domina el arte de la mentira acaba siendo víctima de una enfermedad más grave. Pero piensa que aquel que paga puntualmente sus honorarios no nos engaña.

Quando tentano di esprimere la verità, le parole balbettano sempre in questo modo. Mi pare quasi di vederle annaspare. Non per vergogna, né per paura, ma perché è inevitabile che la nuda verità provochi un simile balbettare, espressione di una sua certa rozza natura.

It was all right that I should try to justify my honest feelings by all sorts of rationalizations. But sometimes the multifarious motives that my brain spun out would force feelings on me that came as a shock even to myself; and those feelings were not originally my own. Only in my hatred was there something authentic. For I myself was a person who should be moved with hate.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one's own heart.

I wish there is a world where any one can know the truth and speak there mind with freedom without having to fear for their lives (Rinko, Basara, Vol. 13)

Are you afriad to tell them the truth? Are you afraid they'll abandon you? You're afraid because you don't trust your followers. If all you want is to lead your fight and take this secret to your grave, then keep it to yourself. But if you want to TRUST them, and earn their trust in return, if you want to fight alongside them, then you must tell them. If they leave you, it means you weren't worth it from the start. (Unten to Sarasa)

Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.

For every good book is worth the reader's while when there is a real communion of the spirit, and this is possible only when he feels he is being taken into the author's confidence and the author is willing to reveal to him the innermost searchings of his heart and talk, as it were, in an unbuttoned mood, collar and tie loose, as by a friend's fireside.

Our language evolved as a way of gossiping. According to this theory Homo sapiens is primarily a social animal. Social cooperation is our key for survival and reproduction. It is not enough for individual men and women to know the whereabouts of lions and bison. It's much more important for them to know who in their band hates whom, who is sleeping with whom, who is honest, and who is a cheat.

Democracy is based on Abraham Lincoln's principle that "you can fool all the people some of the time, and some people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Don't ever write a check with your mouth you can't cash with your ass. Oh, and one more thing... don't wake the mother.

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

What Beka recognized in herself as 'change' began, as far as she could remember, the day she decided to stop lying.

You'll be sorry," he said unpleasantly. "I hope so," Alabama answered. "I like paying for the things I do-it makes me feel square with the world".

Don't mess around with reality and reality won't mess around with you.

Entonces, ¿quedo con él mañana?— le pregunta esperanzada. — ¡Pues claro!— responde Iris—. Si se trata de algo verdadero no hay que andarse con triquiñuelas y, si no lo es, no hay triquiñuela que valga.

History can never be covered up.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted.