Quotes About Honesty

Yet he was more vulnerable to criticism than he admitted.

A man of irreproachable integrity, Hamilton severed all outside sources of income while in office, something that neither Washington nor Jefferson nor Madison dared to do.

Hamilton always expressed himself frankly, no matter what the consequences.

Father was never willing to pay a bill which he did not know to be correct in all its items.

Pierpont always acknowledged his debt to his father—he never pretended to be self-made

La realidad debe primar sobre las relaciones públicas, pues no se puede engañar a la naturaleza.   RICHARD P. FEYNMAN (1918-1988)

sometimes people use complete honesty as an excuse for sadism.

Had the Chinese been more open about the disease when it first appeared, many people might have spared.

Facts were to be faced, not fought.

Hopeless is hopeless, and don't ever pretend it ain't

I'm not much to talk about. What you see is what you get.

People who say no right away are usually lying. A truthful person is perfectly capable of saying no but generally they stop and think about it first. And they add sorry or something like that. Maybe they come out with some questions of their own. It's human nature. They say, Sorry, no, why, what happened?

There was nothing she had neglected to tell him, nothing he had neglected to tell her. People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things properly, there's nothing much to regret.

Especially about how hard it was for ex-military people. They entered the civilian world with all the wrong assumptions. They expected the same kind of certainties they had known before. The straightforwardness, the transparency, the honesty, the shared sacrifice.

He also said the day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.

Admit nothing, even on your deathbed. You might suddenly get better.

Only a fool would be dishonest about that could be disproved in a matter of seconds.

The Mohawk was in there, plus a couple of others that made the Mohawk look a model of probity. A

Garber always tells the truth. So nobody ever believes him.

In the end, despite all your careful introspecting, you pay for following your instincts. And the more intensely and honestly you live, the more incessantly you pay. If you have become that particular, irreducible person, you get precisely what you want but no more. This is the unforgiving truth.

Now courting's a pleasure, and parting is grief, but a false-hearted lover is worse than a thief!

wanted someone with integrity, someone who has grappled with the most potent critiques of the faith and who speaks authoritatively but without the kind of sweeping statements that conceal rather than deal with critical issues.

Godly teachers encourage questions; those who demand unthinking agreement have something to hide.

An authentic relationship means telling the truth about how we feel — and that's the kind of relationship God wants with us.