Quotes About Honesty

he's the only one who didn't slide a piece of paper across the table with a number on it

Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie? -Frizz mizuno

Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to.

She turned to Frizz. So you understand the problem? You can't let Tally know about Radical Honesty. There's no telling what she'll do if she finds out you could ruin her plans. Frizz's eyebrows rose. So let me get this straight, Aya-chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie? We need another plan, Hiro said.

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

Im Deutschen lügt man, wenn man höflich ist.

I prefer an injurious truth to a useful error. Truth heals any pain it may inflict on us.

Wagner: Yet elocution makes the orator; I'm far behind, I feel it more and more. Faust: Seek thou an honest retribution! Be thou no motley, jingling fool! It needs but little elocution To speak good sense by reason's rule. It ye've a message to deliver, Need ye for words be hunting ever?

If some people hadn't felt obliged to repeat what is untrue simply because they had at one point maintained it, they would have turned into quite different people.

Wisdom lies only in truth.

Por qué me ocultas tu corazón?

einen offenen, treuherzigen Menschen.

We would rather admit our moral errors, mistakes and crimes than our scientific errors.

I bimbi non mantengono quel che promettono, i giovani mantengono assai di rado la parola e quando lo fanno è il mondo a non mantenerla con loro.

Una parola schietta è terribile, quando d'improvviso rivela ciò che il cuore da tanto si permette.

On going to hell…. "When I think of judgment day, I get emotional. It's a heavy thing. I did what I did and there's no erasing it. I can write an honest book, be an honest man, help little old ladies across the street but what's done is done. There's no escaping that. Whatever it is, I'll do my time, even for eternity.

When we trust another person, such as a friend to whom we tell something very private, we make ourselves vulnerable, but it is a risk we are willing to take in order to make that relationship even closer.

they will have the right to expect from you the highest standards of character, professional competence and integrity.

I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.

Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.

I could have made a casserole out of these things, but you always say you like to know what you're eating.