Quotes About Honesty

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

Which all goes to show that it is hard to hide how you feel, when mirrors are out there everywhere, just waiting to pounce.

What's always right?" "Kindness," Pitt answered with certainty. "Keeping your promises. Not giving up just because it gets hard. Owning up to your mistakes, and not blaming other people even if you would get away with it.

You have the thing all men and women strive for: the lover from whom you do not have to hide anything.

You only hurt people when you tell them the truth about things that they cannot respect or understand

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

In science, even more than elsewhere, to suppress a truth is to consent to a lie.

She had a capacity for tact, but she was also extremely honest, and if tact and honesty conflicted on any important matter, the honesty won.

I do have that bad habit, so female, of taking people at their word.

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

And what if I think you're doing this out of misguided sense of decency?" "Oh, any sense of decency I possess is most definitely misguided," he said cheerfully.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

DON'T ASK THE QUESTIONS IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE ANSWERS.

Asking for help does not mean that we are weak or incompetent. It usually indicates an advanced level of honesty and intelligence.

IF WE WANT to heal, we have to start getting honest with ourselves and others. Creating the possibility for more truth is up to each of us.

Change is the manifestation of our ability to grow and become. When it occurs in those nearest and dearest to us it is an opportunity for celebration. When it happens in ourselves, it allows us to share ourselves on a new level. When we try to protect others from the awareness of our changes, we are being dishonest. No one can care for who we are unless they know who we are.

The most horrifying thing about art is its honesty

Es wäre natürlich ganz und gar verfehlt, das aufzuschreiben, worüber Margot und ich halbe Tage und Nächte lang reden, so intensiv und ehrlich von beiden Seiten, dass man sich fast um Kopf und Kragen redet. (Brief an Klaus Mann, 23. Juli 1940)

Mayeroff lists a number of elements necessary to be a good caregiver, attributes that are just as necessary to be a good employee or manager. His roster includes knowledge, patience, adaptability to different rhythms, honesty, courage, trust, humility, and hope.

I ask no other epitaph on my tomb but "'SHE TRIED TO FOLLOW TRUTH.

not all situations are appropriate for truthseeking, nor are all people interested in the pursuit.

It's embarrassing when someone tells you that you have something stuck in your teeth. It's more embarrassing when that stuff stays stuck in your teeth because no one told you. By "being kind" and keeping what they see from you, they inadvertently deny you the chance to get the spinach out of your teeth.

There is no such thing as a lesser truth.