Quotes About Honesty

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

If I'm no real good, I prefer to be just frankly no good. I don't want to disguise myself as a man of learning. I don't want to be the representative of a hobby. I want to be what nature made me—no good.

In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act

Why can't criminals be frank about what they're up to? All this disgusting idealistic hogwash-it makes one vomit.

As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms, you must honestly admit it, you're a bore.

Radije ?u ostati ono što jesam,a ne netko drugi,ma koliko on veseo bio.

Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.

El más grave de todos los ´pecados´ es el autoengaño

an ounce of honest pride is better than a ton of false humility, although an ounce of true humility is worth an ounce of honest pride

Quienes dicen "yo perdono, pero no olvido" tendrían que entender que recordar los agravios es peor que no perdonarlos, porque perdonar sin olvidar es mentira».

Por qué nos costará tanto decir las cosas en esta familia?», quiero decirle. «¿Por qué se nos da tan mal compartir lo que sale mal? ¿Es vergüenza? ¿Es miedo? ¿Qué es?»

We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.

Do not ever believe anyone who tells you that he is not afraid of anything, and that whistling bullets is the sweetest music for him. That man is either a madman or a liar.

Sooner or later you'll have to tell the truth to someone.

In the world I inhabit, there is a shortage of intellectual honesty, but not of intelligence.

Solo a Hélène non riusciva a mentire. -è proprio necessario che parta, Baldabiou? -No. -E allora perché? -Io non posso fermarlo. E se lui vuole andare laggiù, posso solo dargli una ragione in più per tornare.

transparent evasion exercises.

only guilt admitted accepts truth.

the longer I've lived with cancer, the more my definition of toughness has changed. I used to think not crying meant you were tough. Now I think crying means you're tough. It means you're strong enough to be honest and vulnerable. It means you're not pretending. And not pretending, being able to let your guard down and show people how you truly feel and admit that you're a wuss, is one of the toughest things a person can do.

There is nothing worse than deluding yourself and trying to make yourself out to be somebody you're not--somebody you're not comfortable being.

People deceive and play games with themselves. Lying to others is bad, but lying to yourself is hopeless.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.