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Quotes About Honesty

When you crop a photo, you tell a lie.
~ Douglas Coupland
Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.
~ Douglas G. Brinkley
watch an animal, and be reminded of what total integrity looks like.
~ Douglas Green
Servandae vitae mendacium.
~ Douglas Preston
The truth shall make you free," she said, "but first it will make you miserable.
~ Douglas Preston
the only person worse than a liar is a hypocrite.
~ Douglas Preston
The fact is, you lied about hearing something because you didn't want the management to know you were drunk on duty. Isn't that right?
~ Douglas Preston
If you're honest with yourself, you can still feel the terrible weight of time pressing on you; that awful, relentless, bodily corruption that is happening constantly to us all.
~ Douglas Preston
it was never too late for the truth.
~ Douglas Preston
He was refreshingly, even alarmingly, direct
~ Douglas Preston
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
~ Adrienne Rich
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
~ Adrienne Rich
The Truth is the only thing you'll ever run into that has no agenda.
~ Adyashanti
I have found over the years of working with people, even those who have had very deep and profound awakenings, that most people have a fear of being truthful, of really being honest-- not only with others, but with themselves as well. Of course, the core of this fear is that most people know intuitively that if they were actually truthful and totally sincere and honest, they would no longer be able to control anybody.
~ Adyashanti
Live by truth or suffer. It's that simple.
~ Adyashanti
What is required after a glimpse of awakening is radical honesty, a willingness to look at how we unenlighten ourselves, how we bring ourselves back into the gravitational force of the dream state, how we allow ourselves to be divided.
~ Adyashanti
If we are being sincere and honest with ourselves, there is an intuitive sense of what we are avoiding. If we can find the capacity to be honest, we'll start to feel in ourselves when we're being called to make effort.
~ Adyashanti
For simple are the words of truth.
~ Aeschylus
There is no disease I spit on more than treachery.
~ Aeschylus
Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.
~ Aeschylus
Thou needs must spit it out and make clean thy mouth.
~ Aeschylus
The words of truth are simple.
~ Aeschylus
God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.
~ Aeschylus
In war, truth is the first casualty.
~ Aeschylus