Quotes About Honesty

it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

I believe that on such an issue as this no one is or can be completely truthful. It is difficult to be certain about anything except what you have seen with your own eyes, and consciously or unconsciously everyone writes as a partisan

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

I have not betrayed Julia.

En tiempos de engaño universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un acto revolucionario".

En una época de engaño universal, decir la verdad es un acto revolucionario.»

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

Eles não podem alterar os sentimentos... aliás, nem nós próprios poderíamos alterá-los, mesmo que quiséssemos. Podiam pôr a nu, com todo o pormenor, quanto houvéramos feito, dito ou pensado; mas o mais fundo do coração, cujo funcionamento até para nós constitui um mistério, há-de ser sempre inexpugnável.

But what a way to do things-never to perform a decent action until you are kicked into it and the rest of the world has ceased to believe that your motives can possibly be honest.

The real reason why I should not like to be in the book trade for life is that while I was in it I lost my love of books. A bookseller has to tell lies about books, and that gives him a distaste for them.

I betrayed you,' she said baldly. 'I betrayed you,' he said.

Intellectual honesty is a crime in any totalitarian country; but even in England it is not exactly profitable to speak and write the truth. In England such concepts as justice, liberty and objective truth are still believed in. They may be illusions, but they are very powerful illusions.

Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two equals four.

Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.

Sahtekarl???n evrensel düzeyde egemen olduÄŸu dönemlerde, gerçeÄŸi söylemek devrimci bir eylemdir.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were instinctively, to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Um dos mais tristes efeitos desta guerra foi ensinar-me que a imprensa esquerdista é tão falsa e desonesta quanto a da direita.

El ataque directo y consciente contra la honradez intelectual procede de los propios intelectuales.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

Now that you've seen what I'm really like, can you still bear to look at me?

It is usually known that newspapers do not say the truth, but it is also known that they cannot tell whoppers.

Dans des temps de tromperie généralisée, le seul fait de dire la vérité est un acte révolutionnaire.

La liberté, c'est la liberté de dire que deux et deux font quatre. Une fois que cela est accordé, le reste suit automatiquement.