Quotes About Honesty

You mean how do I know you are who you say you are?" Merle shrugged. "How do you know anybody is who they say they are?" She shook her head. "We lie to ourselves about who we see, we lie to ourselves about who we are. Then we buy our own lies and try to spend them as our lives.

There are only two types of people who can be totally honest with each other, lovers and strangers. Everyone else is just negotiating.

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

You must not suppose that I would like you to profess religion without possessing it. A hypocrite is in my opinion one of the most detestable of beings. my opinion is, that every one should honestly and carefully investigate the Bible; and if he can believe it to be the word of God, to follow its teachings." - Brevet Major Thomas J. Jackson (1 March 1851)

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.

I'll tell you something, though. I did not hate the lurid dreams. The best of them had an emotional reality, a core of honest sensation, that brought me nearer to aesthetic truth than did the stuff that the literati were always fussing about. Art, I believe, is where you find it.

are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

To be able to work together, communication is the biggest thing,' says Smith. 'And I think that comes from a team that has good links from off the field . . . a team able to spend time together and talk to one another and be honest with one another. It's incredibly important.

With God there is no potential for fraud, deception, contamination, or disaster.

A lie is an act of theft. It steals people's faith and makes them resent themselves

Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness,—that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war,—being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.

Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

If you don't believe in the messenger, you won't believe the message.

Nothing worse than a man who makes excuses, blames others, and refuses responsibility for his own actions." No doubt there were real experiences that underlined the worthlessness of excuse makers for these men.

Love is what we need in friendship when we stumble, and truth is what we need when we stray.

I challenge you to be finished with rationalizations and hypocrisy.

Within the nature of God is a strength that is fashioned in His perfection. Strength flows from the fountain of God's integrity. Honest people are the strongest people.

he would run, the Missouri Senator told Roosevelt's men, "but why the hell didn't he tell me in the first place?

That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.

lies, illusions, and self-serving excuses that cloud our minds make us less able to give and receive love.

A man who doesn't trust cannot be trusted

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

A man isn't as good as his word, he's as good as his Actions.