Quotes About Honesty

In fiction I think we should have no agenda except to try to be truthful. The shouters in thunder roar from their podiums and pulpits; I squeak from my corner.

Be open, be available, be exposed, be skinless. Skinless? Dance around in your bones.

I know it's a crock of shit. I ain't offering you happily-ever-after. I'm offering you... happily-maybe-sometimes-ever-after. Sort of. You know, with warts and shit." -Thayer

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

We must admit that very often we are afraid or ashamed to look at our own minds. So we prefer to avoid it. One should be bold and sincere and look at one's own mind as one looks at one's face in a mirror.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

Illegitimate self-justification takes place when you know you are guilty and seek to hide the fact. Few sins carry the profound ramifications that self-justification does.

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Greatest risk of all: to be vulnerable, to allow others to see us as we really are

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

It is too embarrassing to name and own one's deep failings; as long as they are unvoiced, we may be allowed to pretend it is not so.

But this is real prayer, down and dirty. It is not nice church prayer that refuses to ask anything because we mostly do not believe that prayers are heard or answered.

The key insight is that honest talk transforms and emancipates when it is received in faithful seriousness.

power is not free to disregard truth.

And that's the way it is.

We lie to ourselves here. Maybe we are here because we lie to ourselves.

When all else fails fall back on the truth. No I'm a politician I can't tell the truth Mara Cal Omas

Commonly, people think of philosophy as a quest, however ill advised, for truth. John Dewey called it the quest for certainty. But it is more illuminating to say that, at its best, philosophy is the quest for honesty.

Liars are exhausting people.

What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarassment?

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great

There are times when the truth is the worst possible thing you can come out with.

An author owes a duty to the truth.