Quotes About Honesty

When people try to hide things from you, they shouldn't be nice to you. They ought to ignore you or throw a pie at you or do something other than smile.

One phrase stuck in Fainy's mind, and he repeated it to himself after he had gone to bed that night: It is time for all honest men to band together to resist the ravages of greedy privilege.

For every inch that is not fool is rogue.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began.

My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.

Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.

I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.

If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.

My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.

I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.

If you hide behind the things you don't want to talk about then you're going to feel insecure in all aspects of your life.

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.

When I came out in the public about my struggles with alcohol and drugs, that's probably the most vulnerable I have ever been in my entire life.

I am a simpleton at heart. In my personal life, I don't wear makeup.

The most powerful person in your life is the one that knows all your secrets and all your lies.

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

Faith that is not evidenced by a life of integrity is not biblical faith at all.

I've been living a lie all my life.

There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.

Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.

Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something