Quotes About Honesty

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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

I learned a lot from that, like how much it hurt to see how other people described you, and how things that you said about another person, especially your parents, seemed neutral when addressed to a third party, but lethal when you thought about your parents reading it.

It's so hard to be sincere without sounding pretentious,' she said. 'I mean, what are you supposed to do if you really happen to feel like you've swallowed the universe? Not say so?

It's hard to be sincere without sounding pretentious," she said. "I mean, what are you supposed to do if you really happen to feel like you've swallowed the universe? Not say so?

Ivan pushed his paper cup in various directions, as if it were a king under check. He said that in Hungary people were more honest. If they thought you were doing something stupid, they let you know right away. Americans were polite and remote, as if there were bubbles separating everyone. "You can't tell if someone really likes you," he said. "You can't get close. There are all these blocks." "Blocks," I echoed.

It's so hard to be sincere without sounding pretentious. I mean, what are you supposed to do if you really happen to feel like you've swallowed the universe? Not say so?

It wasn't that I hadn't known these things, but that at some point, without realizing it, I had persuaded myself that I was different—that my honesty and non-lameness wouldn't be punished like that, because I had some special skill, some self-sufficiency, an ability to be alone. I always had been alone, when every other person in my family had insisted on having someone around to have sex with.

Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed.

The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask.

Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.

Writers are liars trying to come clean. That's why the best ones are the most tragic.

Literature is the product of a deep-seated need for honesty. Hence, those who lie most are struck most deeply by it, and those who are honest have no need for it.

Marriage is a lie—the most beautiful lie two people can share.

Finally, it's not the lies we tell others that do the most damage, it's those we tell ourselves. From this all troubles rise.

When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.

It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie

It is better to live one day on the planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.