Quotes About Honesty

Mindenkinek szüksége van arra, hogy nyíltan beszélhessen valakivel – mondta az asszony. – AzelÅ'tt ott volt a vallás meg a többi értelmetlenség, most meg mindenkinek szüksége van valakire, akinek mindent Å'szintén bevallhat, mert különben akármilyen értékes ember, magányossá lesz.

Con not, that thou be not conned.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings.

Desconfio de todas as pessoas francas e simples, principalmente quando suas histórias são coerentes.

I've known a lot of gypsies and they are strange enough. But so are we. The difference is we have to make an honest living. Nobody knows what tribes we came from nor what our tribal inheritance is nor what the mysteries were in the woods where the people lived that we came from. All we know is that we do not know.

Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship. I had been having Brett for a friend. I had not been thinking about her side of it. I had been getting something for nothing. That only delayed the presentation of the bill. The bill always came. That was one of the swell things you could count on.

Desconfío de todas las personas francas y sencillas, especialmente cuando sus historias parecen tener lógica

Njega sam ubio u samoobrani - opet ?e starac naglas. - I pošteno sam ga ubio. Osim toga, pomisli, svi se me?u sobom ubijaju, na ovaj ili onaj na?in. Ribarenje me ubija koliko me i održava na životu.

You know. Don't pretend you don't know.

It is why I bother with you, he said. I think you write absolutely truly and that is very rare. So I would like you to know some things.

The people you work with should be either fully trusted or not trusted at all, so one should decide, who deserves to be trusted

Every one needs to talk to some one," the woman said. "Before we had religion and other nonsense. Now for every one there should be some one to whom one can speak frankly, for all the valor that one could have one becomes very alone." "We are not alone. We are all together.

Write hard and clear about what hurts

I'm not joking you. I never joke people. Joke people and you make enemies. That's what I always say.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine." - Ernest Hemingway

Write the truest sentence you know.

Start by writing the truest sentence you know

I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.

The search for spirituality is, first of all, a search for reality, for honesty, for true speaking and true thinking. At least from the time of the Delphic oracle's first admonition, Know thyself, the arch-foe of spirituality has been recognized to be "denial"—the self-deception that rejects self by attempting to repudiate the essential paradox that is our human be-ing.

The remedy for "keeping something to oneself" is not "letting it all hang out," which is a modern-day perversion of pervasiveness.

If you can't do, you'd best shut up about it.

Where there is nothing left to hide, there is nothing left to seek.

To the American way of thinking, respect is bound up with honesty, and honesty is essential to personal responsibility. Hiding, dissimulation, and other forms of deception amount to disrespect. You lie only to those beneath you—children, constituents, employees

She says, "I am so sick of the excuses