Quotes About Honesty

whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

Decir la verdad y después prenderse fuego. Esa es la tarea del filósofo.

Rien n'est beau gue le vrai; le vrai seul est aimable'' ''DoÄŸrudan baÅŸka hiçbir ÅŸey güzel deÄŸildir; sadece doÄŸru sevilmeye deÄŸerdir.

If your abilities are only mediocre, modesty is mere honesty; but if you possess great talents, it is hypocrisy.

Pseudo-philosophers, on the contrary, use speech, not indeed to conceal their thoughts, as M. de Talleyrand has it, but rather to conceal the absence of them

To write truthfully you must live, and you must feel what you are living.

più pura la morte, più salata la sventura, (...) più onesta e paurosa la terra.

What we need are people who are prepared to be unpopular. Who are prepared to put themselves in danger. Who are prepared to tell the truth. Brave journalists can do that, and they have. Brave lawyers can do that, and they have. And artists—beautiful, brilliant, brave writers, poets, musicians, painters, and filmmakers can do that. That beauty is on our side. All of it.

And they would not believe me precisely because they would know that what I said was true.

But even more daunting is the second kind of courage—the courage to act on the truth we find.

We could never bring ourselves to discuss the larger truth about his condition or the ultimate limits of our capabilities, let alone what might matter most to him as he neared the end of his life.

When things go wrong, it's almost impossible for a physician to talk to a patient honestly about mistakes.

When things go wrong, the attending is expected to take full responsibility. It

It's easy to hide in a statement. It's hard to hide between statements," Cook said.

Again, none of this should be taken to mean that people are faking it.

Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.

The rest of us learned the simple lesson - invaluable in a bureaucratic society - that there is no moral or practical obligation to tell the truth when filling in forms.

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present. We do not have to suffer the waste of an amnesia that robs us of the lessons of the past rather than permit us to read them with pride as well as deep understanding. We know what it is to be lied to, and we know how important it is not lie to ourselves. We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about—survival and growth.

What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.

If I do not bring all of who I am to whatever I do, then I bring nothing, or nothing of lasting worth, for I have withheld my essence.

What happens when you narrow your definition to what is convenient, or what is fashionable, or what is expected, is dishonesty by silence.

And it is upon our ability to look honestly upon our differences, to see them as creative rather than divisive, that our future success may lie.