Quotes About Honesty

Unless you're like my friend, poet Brooks Haxton (who translates Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew, and German), throwing in three-dollar words will just make you look like a dick.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. Mark Twain

If your goal is to polish up a fake person you can sell to a public you perceive as dumb, the unexamined life will do perfectly well, thank you.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. Mark Twain The

Forget how inventing stuff breaks a contract with the reader, it fences the memoirist off from the deeper truths that only surface in draft five or ten or twenty.

Don't approach your history as something to be shaken for its cautionary fruit…Tell your stories, and your story will be revealed…Don't be afraid of appearing angry, small-minded, obtuse, mean, immoral, amoral, calculating, or anything else. Take no care for your dignity. Those were hard things for me to come by, and I offer them to you for what they may be worth.

If only one man is left standing, a bribe cannot bite.

Not knaves, fools.

You could not love a man who was always playing hide-and-seek with you; that was the lesson she had learned.

You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul. That worrier.

I know a lot of fancy words. I tear them from my heart and my tongue. Then I pray.

You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul. That worrier.

they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real.

People are straightforward enough, on the whole, till one starts to look for crooked motives, and then, oh boy, how crooked can they be!

the one who calls it by its name. To you

An open and capacious forehead gave indications of a good understanding, joined to great frankness of disposition.

sister or a brother can never, unless indeed such symptoms have been shewn early, suspect the other of fraud or false dealing, when another friend, however strongly he may be attached, may, in spite of himself, be invaded with suspicion. But

The truth always arrive too late because it walks slower than lies. Truth crawls at a snail's pace.

Rigidity is always the opposite of the search for truth.

The truth was too primitive and too bloody.

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Sometimes just to say your own truth out loud is enough to find others like you.

Perhaps the most popular sign is eye contact. We often read in books or see in movies that a person who cannot maintain eye contact could be lying. Or it could mean that he or she is hiding something from you. Meanwhile, maintaining eye contact means attentiveness in the conversation and honesty.

Whatever your reason is for talking to someone, be sure you are "mostly" honest and genuine because people (especially females) can see through lies. They