Quotes About Honesty

I tell you this, my friend; all men are cowards. They dislike a fact except when it is so wrapped up in lies and sentiments that the sharp edge of it cannot hurt them. When a man tells the truth he his, depend upon it, a dangerous man.

I like presenting ambiguous situations. It seems to me a great part of our inner and outer lives are ambiguous, if we're honest about it. Maybe I'm a realist, in that respect.

In short, a diamond bracelet is a much more honest instrument of courtship than a perforated stomach. She has the option of throwing the jewelry back at him, but she cannot decently walk out on the ulcer. ("Look How Hard I've Been Trying")

If you take away the big words and the solemn face, there is still plenty left, so there is no need to be scared.

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

At least I admit that I don't know. I know that things are fucked up, beyond belief, and I have nothing original to say about it.

We know the danger of this game, having both made the mistake of playing a similar game with our other friends, in which you tell three terrible stories about yourself, but two of them are lies. Your friends have to figure out the true one. It's like that Meat Loaf song, but when you think of that title, "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad," what you really mean to say here, is: "One of These Three Is Awful.

Walk the talk.

We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Laughter is the only sane response to pathological lying.

It's scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.

when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!

There's something about honesty...A chap's got to be honest. Never forget it all thy entire life. And there's a funny thing about honesty...No two ways about it; there's only one way about it....(Father to son, Joe)

And there's a funny thing about honesty; there's no two ways about it. There's only one way about it. Honest is honest.

That's what I wanted to say. Ye mustn't think we're over hard on thee. We don't want to be. It's just – well – back of it all, a chap's got to be honest, Joe. And never thee forget that, all thy life, no matter what comes. Ye've got to be honest.

True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty.

When the realities of a fallen world hit us, we need room to worship the Lord in honest expressions of unedited grief.

There ought to be no awkwardness or embarrassment to either of us, tho' there may be some anxiety: and if you will open to me fairly the whole state of your mind on these subjects, tho' I shall venture to state to you fairly the points where I fear we may differ, and to desire you to re-examine your own ideas where I think you are mistaken, I will not importune you with fruitless discussion on any opinion which you have deliberately formed.

It is remarkable how I am never quite clear about the motives for any of my decisions. Is that a sign of confusion, of inner dishonesty, or is it a sign that we are guided without our knowing, or is it both? -Bonhoeffer

Anyone on the side of truth, wherever it led, was a compatriot to be lauded.

Perhaps even more important in the Bonhoeffer family was acting upon what one said one believed. One must not only think clearly but must prove one's thoughts in action. If one was unprepared to live out what one claimed to believe, perhaps one didn't believe what one claimed after all!

One cannot demand "the truth" at any cost, and for this girl to admit in front of the class that her father is a drunkard is to dishonor him. How one tells the truth depends on circumstances.

He did not owe the Nazis the truth about the manuscript any more than the hypothetical little girl in his essay owed her class the truth about her father's vices.

Why is it I think you're lying, Brigid?" "Because you spent your entire life surrounded by liars and can't fathom the concept of honesty? Or honor and integrity. Or any other attribute of a good officer.