Quotes About Honesty

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.

The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.

I don't hype a fight to sell tickets.

You can tell the truth, but sometimes you can't always be in your face with it. I found a way to tell the truth and put it in a nice, neat package for people to receive it. A lot of times, you have to put it in a nice, neat box with a bow tie, and when they open it, it's the truth. I think people respect that.

George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.

For young people I like to talk about unleashing your integrity, because I tie it to social media and how careful we have to be about being consistent online with who we really are.

We fell in love during the making of 'Ye Maaya Chesave' in 2009, and the love affair continued very well in the following years. I was, however, delaying revealing to my parents about my love affair despite Sam's insistence. One day, when we were chatting casually, Sam threatened to tie a 'rakhi' on me if I didn't tell about the love to my parents.

I'm me. I can't put on airs. I'm not a phony. I know the way I am hurts me more times than it helps. But somehow it's all tied up with my integrity, and my integrity is the last thing I'm going to let you take from me.

Oddly enough, I'm not a particularly judgmental person. I just don't have a lot of filtering when I'm in 'tiger mother' mode. I say what comes into my head.

The biggest lie in the world is in answer to the question, 'How are you?' People usually say, 'I'm fine,' but that's mostly bull. Everyone wants to display being perfect. They tell themselves and their friends, 'I drive this car, I own this house, I'm fine.' People ball up into these tight wads of repression.

I think my morals are perfectly... tight!

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

To write the essay is to be haunted by our own lies. No story is the whole story. Everything we know is shadowed by what we've missed, forgotten, or been afraid to see.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them, therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

I use humour to hide behind, because I cannot bear to feel my feelings, cannot face the truth.

A secret told is mine to tell. Of truth and lies, the lesser hell.

There is always a price to pay when one tinkers with the truth.

His brows shot up. "You are very frank." She grinned. "It is one of the benefits of choosing spinsterhood.

Learn to talk honestly, truthfully, logically, ethically, and boldly.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating: It is either good or bad.

Well that's very kind of you, but voices ought not be measured by how pretty they are. Instead they matter only if they convince you that they are telling the truth.