Quotes About Honesty

In God we trust; all others must pay cash.

When do I get to say whatever I wish?" "When it pains you not to," her mother had replied. "What if I'm too scared?" "All the more reason to speak your mind.

Don't be so timid! When you were a child, didn't you speak out the truth that the oldest ones kept secret? Well, you were right then. You must find the time of innocence in yourself again, because that was also the time of courage.

Peut-être faudra-t-il que quelqu'un ose leur apprendre à regarder la défaite dans les yeux, ose leur expliquer que pour se relever il faut d'abord admettre qu'on est à terre. Peut-être faudra-t-il que quelqu'un leur dise la vérité un jour.

Bir insan kendini anlat?rken tarafs?zl?k, ucu yalana ç?kan all? pullu bir yol deÄŸil midir?

C'est aux sultans et aux cadis qu'il faut parler avec des circonlocutions. Pas au Créateur. Dieu est grand, II n'a que faire de nos petits airs et de nos petites courbettes. II m'a fait pensant, alors je pense, et je Lui livre sans dissimulation le fruit de ma pensée.

Jamais je ne m'abaisserai à dire ce que je ne pense pas, mais je peux parfaitement m'abstenir de dire tout ce que je pense.

Jean wondered how it might be to go out into the night and howl for sex. The clarity of purpose was appealing. No games.

If we live all our lives under lies, it becomes difficult to see anything if it does not have anything to do with these lies. If it is, for example, true or, say, honest.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

He leaned down & he said, Michael, I will tell you honestly because you've been honest with me, that what you want is a holy human right, and you shouldn't just give it up. I humored him. I said, What right, Harry? The right to feel the burden of carrying your own life. Just you and your family and your boat. No crutches, no excuses.

Heterophemize (v.) To say something different from what you mean to say. Think back on all the things you've said in life that you truly wish you hadn't. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just claim afterward that you had been heterophemizing, and be instantly forgiven? Homodoxian

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

Truths are failed to sell in the market but lies are purchased with high price without pricing it.

The rope of the truth is thin but there is nobody who can cut it; the rope of lie is thick as a large pillar but it can be cut easily into a thousand pieces.

Physicist Richard Feynman once said that analysis is how we try not to fool ourselves.129

Court is a place where facts STILL matter

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

try hard not to say things like this, but every once in a while my need to prove a point, such a base and unattractive need, rises up and I meet it by telling him things that he doesn't need to hear.

Conflict, in the Bridgewater culture, is conducted in the service of finding "what is true and what to do about it.

Psychological safety enables candor and openness and, as such, thrives in an environment of mutual respect. It means that people believe they can – and must – be forthcoming at work. In fact, psychological safety is conducive to setting ambitious goals and working toward them together. Psychological safety sets the stage for a more honest, more challenging, more collaborative, and thus also more effective work environment.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.