Quotes About Honesty

Quando dici una bugia, dopo devi essere coerente. Lo sanno tutti.

Nothing squandered, nothing cloaked.

Twiss. Free of vice and gossip and idle tales." As the indicator arrow hit "B," Joseph switched to

Your such a cynic. Exactly, thats what you call a guy who tells you the truth.

But maybe 'the brutality of fact' isn't a phrase that precisely suits what he does. Perhaps, 'the awkwardness of truth' would be nearer the mark. …

No doubt it is not popular to say these things,' Churchill had written to his wife on 26 September 1935, 'but I am accustomed to abuse and I expect to have a great deal more of it before I have finished. Somebody has to state the truth.' During

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

Martin Luther King Jr.

Honesty also impels us to admit that the church has not been true to its social mission on the question of racial justice. In this area it has failed Christ miserably. This failure is due not only to the fact that the church has been appallingly silent and disastrously indifferent to the realm of race relations but even more to the fact that it has often been an active participant in shaping and crystallizing the patterns of the race-caste system.

Be sure that the means you employ are as pure as the end you seek.

What you're saying may get you a foundation grant but it won't get you into the kingdom of truth.

the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

we will make progress if we freely admit that we have no magic.

One of the great needs of mankind is to be lifted above the morass of false propaganda.

We often do not say what is in our hearts," he said, "to those who are closest and most dear to us.

Why say something, he asked her, if your words mean nothing?

And a strong man, she said. Strong enough to be vulnerable, to take risks, to be honest even when honesty might expose him to ridicule or rejection. And someone who would put himself at the center of my world even before knowing that I would be willing to do the same for him. A man foolish and brave enough to tell me that he loves me even when I have hidden all signs that I love him in return.

I believe you are a man of your word, and a white man, and I'll tell you the whole story.

It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.

Tell us the truth, for there lies your only hope of safety.

No good can ever come of falsehood

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

I have never read anything quite like Mark Haddon's funny and agonizingly honest book, or encountered a narrator more vivid and memorable. I advise you to buy two copies; you won't want to lend yours out.

Nadie es capaz de hablar honestamente de sus sufrimientos hasta que ha dejado de sentirlos.