Quotes About Honesty

Ben Franklin once said three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

itself. An honest examination of Scripture leads to the conclusion that the Bible is thoroughly inspired but also thoroughly human. The human element in Scripture reflects the limitations and fallibility that are a part of all human perspectives and all human thinking. This human element can be clearly seen in at least three areas of Scripture. First

You could say whatever you liked to them and they would not take you seriously, not even take offense—as long as you told the strict truth. They never recognized it.

For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die.

It's isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving, unlived in the things we declare form heart to heart, those true and real feelings wither and crumble in the remembering hand that tries too late to reach for them.

The heart doesn't know how to quit, because it doesn't know how to lie.

Gimme an honest frown over a false smile, any day.

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

But sometimes, being silent is the only way to tell the truth.

Silences can wound as surely as the twisting lash, the poet Sadiq Khan once wrote. But sometimes, being silent is the only way to tell the truth.

Jealousy has no mirror, and resentment has a tin ear for the truth.

Be to, jei tikim?s, kad mums kas nors išeis, noriu, kad nieko nelikt? nepasakyta... apie praeit?.

Men don't like to be that honest about love: to put the gun in a woman's hand, and hold it against their own hearts, and say, Here, this is how you kill me. But it was okay. It was okay.

Fear is a poverty of Truth, and Greed is a poverty of Faith

I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving, unlived in the things we declare from heart to heart, those true and real feelings wither and crumble in the remembering hand that tries too late to reach for them.

I've been in love with you for a while, and I finally had to say it. It doesn't mean you have to do anything about it -- or me either, for that matter.

Prison pulls the masks away from men. You can't hide what you are, in prison. You can't pretend to be tough. You are, or you're not, and everyone knows it.

Ah, my dear friend, I cannot claim it as my own. It was Karla who said it to me the first time, and I have used it ever since. I am guilty of many crimes—of most crimes, to say the truth—but I have never claimed a cleverness that was not my own.' 'Admirable,' I laughed.

I tried to sound confident and strong, but there are some lies that the body just won't believe, and the words came out as a squeak.

Prabaker has a disappointing habit of telling everybody the truth.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like. I

is necessary to do the wrong thing for the right reasons. The important thing is to be sure that our reasons are right, and that we admit the wrong—that we do not lie to ourselves, and convince ourselves that what we do is right.