Quotes About Honesty

Mark Halperin

And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.

Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye.

The best thing in the world is the truth. You find it out anyway, in the end, or sooner.

quiet pain that comes from not honoring what we know to be true, even if all we know to be true are the questions we are asking.

Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.

So what does it mean to be a spiritual warrior? It is far from being a soldier, but more the sincerity with which a soul faces itself in a daily way. It is this courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And it is by honoring how life comes through us that we get the most out of living, not by keeping ourselves out of the way. The goal is to mix our hands in the earth, not to stay clean.

It doesn't have to be pretty or smart, just honest and true. For many a dance starts with a trip, and many a song finds its opening through a cough.

Humility is much more profound than honesty about our problems or looking at the ground when we speak. It's about dependency and childlike trust, and it doesn't contain a whiff of self-righteousness or defensiveness.

There is no absolute truth. There is only your own truth. Write honestly, from the heart, and you will reach your readers.

Whatever you are, be a good one. —ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I wouldn't believe Donald Trump if his tongue were notarized"—courtesy of Alair Townsend

When people make certain statements and their acts conform to those statements I tend to take them at their word.

Let us stop making unjustified claims and exaggerated projections about the future even if the editors of some eminent journals are just waiting to publish them.

our" reaction on the errors found in Mike Mann's work were not especially honest.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.

How many books do we read from which the writer lacked courage to tie off the umbilical cord? How many gifts do we open from which the writer neglected to remove the price tag? Is it pertinent, is it courteous, for us to learn what it cost the writer personally?

I didn't obscure anything, I just left it out.

Lying in bed and smoking my sixth or seventh cigarette of the morning, I'm wondering what the hell I'm going to do today. Oh yeah, I gotta write this thing. But that's not work, really, is it? It feels somehow shifty and . . . dishonest, making a buck writing.