Quotes About Honesty

Relationships work best if we are honest about not wanting the truth.

Ik vind het vervelend dat ik het je moet vertellen, maar je zult nooit gelukkig worden. Ik wil je geen pijn doen door dit te zeggen. Ik zeg het omdat ik het wel zo eerlijk vind om open kaart te spelen voor we beginnen. Ik hoop dat je dat waardeert, want vanaf nu zal niemand meer open of eerlijk tegen je zijn. Dus nogmaals, ik zeg het je vooraf maar: je zult nooit gelukkig worden. Ik heb het voor je opgeschreven. Heel graag gedaan.

It made her chest hurt, how much she felt in this moment. She knew she should not say anything impetuously. But under the light of the stained glass window, the flickering candlelight of their shared memories, it felt like simple unexamined honesty. No matter what the darkness brought back to her tomorrow. "I'm in love with you.

Tell him... You think it's kinder not to, but it isn't.

You will explain to me what you are doing. Right after you get down from there and put on some clothes. Now.

It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.

Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

Every one has something in his nature which, if he were to express it openly, would of necessity give offence.

When one is polite in German, one lies.

To speak the truth, as truth to me appeared, Caused noisy protests, I was hooted down. Such unpleasant incidents occurred That I ran off so as to be alone, Into the wilds. Utterly forsaken, I took at last the Devil for companion.

Investigate what is, and not what pleases.