Quotes About Honesty

Nobody can live a continuous lie and find serenity.

Every Reason to Lie

Self-betrayal" 1. An act contrary to what I feel I should do for another is called an act of "self-betrayal." 2. When I betray myself, I begin to see the world in a way that justifies my self-betrayal. 3. When I see the world in a self-justifying way, my view of reality becomes distorted.

Self-betrayal" 1. An act contrary to what I feel I should do for another is called an act of "self-betrayal." 2. When I betray myself, I begin to see the world in a way that justifies my self-betrayal.

Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

At Emma's wedding, while we are eating the white cake together after my toast, she says, "Do you hate me for being pregnant?" And I tell her the truth. I feel that her child, in a lesser but still crucial way, will be mine, too. —

Character is who you are when nobody else is watching," he wrote in one of his books—the undeniable, hokey truth.

Politics these days in no occupation for an honest man ... neither educated nor honest, he has to be an ignoramus & a rogue.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas

Je vois les choses de plus haut. Je sens trop ma force pour m'abaisser à de telles intrigues, si au-dessous de mon caractère ; je marche d'une allure plus franche. On me reprocherait avec plus de raison, peut-être, de faire ma politique comme les torrents font leur lit.

Could you conjugate that? To sleaze. I sleaze. You sleaze. We all have sleazen.

We have rules. Full disclosure, for one thing. And we're in bed with each other at the end of the day. Our commitment is for life, and we save our hearts for each other. That way we can have play AND permanency. If monogamy becomes more important than fidelity, you're bound to get hurt. It's all the lying that clobbers you, not the sex.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

Vind je me niet mooi?' 'Heel mooi. Mooi zoals mensen mooi zijn die niet lang meer te leven hebben.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

He was only aware of the conflict that was slowly destroying his integrity—the conflict between truth, and concealment of truth.

In Lys, it seemed, all love began with mental contact, and it might be months or years before a couple actually met. In this way, Hilvar explained, there could be no false impressions, no deceptions, on either side. Two people whose minds were open to one another could hide no secrets.

Otsusta minu üle mu tegude järgi, ehkki neid on vähe, mitte mu sõnade järgi, kuigi neid on palju.