Quotes About Honesty

All this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me, like an uncooked egg deciding to to come out of its shell: there would be a risk of spreading out too far, turning into a formless puddle.

How can I teach her some way of being human that won't destroy her I would like to tell her, Love is enough, I would like to say, Find shelter in another skin. I would like to say, Dance and be happy. Instead I will say in my crone's voice, Be ruthless when you have to, tell the truth when you can, when you can see it.

Your friend is intellectually honourable, Jimmy's mother would say. He doesn't lie to himself.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date.

Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.

I'm all ears," she said. An untruth—her ears were a small part of her—but I let that pass.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it. Impossible, of course.

By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been afraid to pronounce them.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

Unlike some other religions, we have never felt it served a higher purpose to lie to children about geology.

But in an account such as this, it is better to be scrupulous about your faults, as about all your other actions. Otherwise no one will understand why you made the decisions that you made.

After all you've been through, you deserve whatever I have left, which is not much but includes the truth.

What do I want? I want you to talk about normal things. No I don't. I want you to look me in the eye and say, I know you're dying.

Eu gostaria de não ter vergonha. Gostaria de ser sem vergonha. Gostaria de ser ignorante. Então eu não saberia o quanto era ignorante.

to quote George Orwell: "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." And to quote him again: three words: Tell. The. Truth.

But Jimmy, you should know. All sex is real.

In God we trust, all others pay cash.

Az igazságot egyetlen módon lehet csak megírni: ha feltételezzük, hogy amit megírtunk, soha nem fogja elolvasni senki, Se más, se mi magunk valamikor késÅ'bb. Különben csak mentegeti magát az ember.

What is it that I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me. Don't prettify me though, whatever else you do: I have no wish to be a decorated skull.

I expect he did it awkwardly, but awkwardness in men was a sign of sincerity then.

you should know. All sex is real.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself.

But it wasn't more honestly that would have saved me, I thought; it was more dishonesty. In my experience, honesty and expressing your feelings could lead to only one thing. Disaster.

Mom, who knew the dirt, and hid the dirt, and did the dirty work, and never saw herself or us as clean enough – and who believed that there was other dirt you shouldn't tell to children, and didn't tell it, which was dangerous only later.