Quotes About Honesty

the collective ambition of public figures must become to ensure that they write, speak and think out loud in such a fashion that no dishonest critic could dishonestly misrepresent them.

I have found that liars in the end communicate more truth than do truth tellers." "How's that?" "Because truth is the safest lie.

I have often found it true that the louder a person speaks, the less they have to say.

Studies show that while few people are good at detecting factual lies, most of us can determine when someone is distorting, manufacturing, or withholding an emotion.

When you keep your sexual conversations, behaviors, pornography, or masturbation a secret, you are

Your writing advances a particular view of the world. Pretending that it does't just confuses everybody, starting with you.

Objectivity is a false god, and the worship of this idol is particularly pernicious in disciplines like journalism and history. It is not possible to be objective----although of course it is possible to be honest. By pretending to attain to objectivity, a writer's fundamental faith commitments are not eliminated, but rather submerged----and they then come out in interesting and intellectually dishonest ways.

Your writing advances a particular view of the world. Pretending that it doesn't just confuses everybody, starting with you. RECOMMENDED

If you have told twenty-eight people this week that "he missed his nap today" as an excuse for his disobedience, then perhaps you ought to re-evaluate. We all know there are times when this is not an excuse but a reasonable explanation. But if you find yourself resorting to excuses all the time, then you are just trying to get people to overlook your lack of wisdom and discipline.

The important thing to remember is that the words will always be right if they are real and true and come from the heart.

Sincerity is the sum of all moral qualities.

there is no obscuring of responsibility such as "I try to be honest." We are honest or we are not honest.

Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood. (Noli Me Tangere)

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

Never do anything that you aren't prepared to face the true consequences of.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

I said, "I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them." I said, and said, and said those words. I said them but I lied them.

Budi ono što jesi i kaži ono što osje?aš, jer oni koji imaju nešto protiv toga nisu važni, a oni koji su važni, nemaju ništa protiv toga.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because in the end those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!" —Horton Hatches the Egg

Don't cheat others and more important is don't get cheated by others.

Sometimes, we need a few people in our lives who will calmly call our bluff.

Dont listen to the lies, I swear they all lies. You know I could be your knight in shining Armor All tires.