Quotes About Honesty

I think people are frightened of saying what they think, and I think that's a bad thing for society.

I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.

I have always expressed my opinion fearlessly. To not express the truth is far more frightening.

I'm a human being and I will make mistakes from time to time but what I will say is that any mistakes I make are very honest ones.

When you can have a relationship that's like that to where everything is out in the open, you are up front, and there is open communication, it makes for a great relationship.

As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.

In my life and my work, I really try to be just fully myself.

A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you're saying is a cover-up for how you really feel - embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid.

We must first be able to look honestly at fundamentalism in our own backyard, if we are to have any hope of weeding it out.

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier.

secrets, Charley my mother whispered. They'll tear you apart.

In all matrimonial associations there is, I believe, one constant factor - a desire to deceive the person with whom one lives as to some weak spot in one's character or in one's career. For it is intolerable to live constantly with one human being who perceives one's small meannesses. It is really death to do so - that is why so many marriages turn out unhappily.

It would be restful to serve, if only as a slave, people who saw clearly, coldly, straight, not obliquely and with hypocrisy only, such things as should deviously conduce to the standard of comfort of hogs and to lecheries winked at...He

I guess it is vanity that makes most of us keep straight, if we do keep straight, in this world.

The man in the corner hollered, Tell it all!

Granpa said he seen that and so he knowed. Granpa said ye had to understand. But most people didn't want to-it was too much trouble-so they used words to cover their own laziness and called other folks shiftless.

I've always had a passion for tearing the bandages from other people's eyes. I've always insisted that those round me should see things as they are. I suppose it is that I need companionship in despair. I can't understand not despairing.

Advice to Readers Good friends who come to read this book, Strip yourselves first of affectation; Do not assume a pained, shocked look, For it contains no foul infection, Yet teaches you no great perfection, But lessons in the mirthful art, The only subject for my heart. When I see grief consume and rot You, mirth's my theme and tears are not, For laughter is man's proper lot.

La verité dans sa matière brute est plus fausse que la faux.

Un homme de bien, un homme de bon sens, croit toujours ce qu'on lui dit et ce qu'il trouve dans les livres.

The tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend it was anything but tea.

Th' world's full o' jackasses brayin' an' they never bray nowt but lies.

That's almost like telling lies," she said. "And lies—well, you see, they are not only wicked—they're vulgar.