Quotes About Honesty

truth is reality

They are not burdened by any need to hide. They do not have to slink around in the shadows. They do not have to construct new lies to hide old ones. They need waste no effort covering tracks or maintaining disguises. And ultimately they find that the energy required for the self-discipline of honesty is far less than the energy required for secretiveness. The more honest one is, the easier it is to continue being honest, just as the more lies one has told, the more necessary it is to lie again.

A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.

The more honest one is, the easier it is to continue being honest, just as the more lies one has told, the more necessary it is to lie again. By their openness, people dedicated to the truth live in the open, and through the exercise of their courage to live in the open, they become free from fear.

The children are deprived of the knowledge they might gain about money, illness, drugs, sex, marriage, their parents, their grandparents and people in general. They are also deprived of the reassurance they might receive if these topics were discussed more openly. Finally, they are deprived of role models of openness and honesty, and are provided instead with role models of partial honesty, incomplete openness and limited courage.

Third, the decision to withhold the truth should never be based on personal needs, such as a need for power, a need to be liked or a need to protect one's map from challenge.

There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing.

There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

notice that frankness is the first virtue of a deceased man.

em tempo de guerra, mentira como terra.

Ora aqui está um homem que detesta a folha e paga. Quantos a adoram e não pagam!

Quantas intenções viciosas há assim que embarcam, a meio caminho, numa frase inocente e pura! Chega a fazer suspeitar que a mentira é, muita vez, tão involuntária como a transpiração.

O que eu peço à crítica vem a ser — intenção benévola, mas expressão franca e justa. Aplausos, quando os não fundamenta o mérito, afagam certamente o espírito e dão algum verniz de celebridade; mas quem tem vontade de aprender e quer fazer alguma coisa, prefere a lição que melhora ao ruído que lisonjeia.

Mas vá lá; ou não se há de contar nada, ou se há de dizer tudo.

desconfia sempre dos que mais falam, sejam homens ou mulheres. (Linha reta e linha curva)

Contame a tua vida o mais miudamente que puderes; contame a vida de todos. Não me escondas nada; se, por exemplo, ao abrir um livro ou tocar uma tecla do piano, pensares em mim, escreve isso mesmo, marcando o dia e até a hora, se puder ser.

Il n'est point d'autre moyen de se garder de la flatterie que de donner à entendre aux gens qu'ils ne t'offensent pas à te dire le vrai; mais quand chacun peut te dire le vrai, on cesse de te respecter.

Falsehood flies," observed Jonathan Swift, "and the truth comes limping after it.

Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts? I do face facts, Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

People become trustworthy when they are trusted.

Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)

You're much too straightforward to be able to pretend to be what you aren't," Mrs. Murry said.

Why can't I hide it, too? Meg thought. Why do I always have to show everything?

Why should I apologise for being utterly honest from the start, telling you the score, telling you the truth, coming to meet your parents, calling them to say I was worried that you didn't answer your phone. Are these the actions of some kind of shit? No, I think they're what a man who loves you might do.