Quotes About Honesty

Leaders began to profess their love of peace and to claim that war had been forced upon them.118 As Mueller notes, "No longer was it possible simply and honestly to proclaim like Julius Caesar, 'I came, I saw, I conquered.' Gradually this was changed to 'I came, I saw, he attacked me while I was just standing there looking, I won.' This might be seen as progress."119

legal investigation. As Clinton noted, "My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful.

We judge people not just on what they do but on what they are - not just on whether someone has given more than he has taken, but on whether he is the kind of person who would sell you down the river or knife you in the back if it were ever in his interests to do so.

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.

Though truth-telling sheds no blood, it requires a painful emotional sacrifice on the part of the confessors in the form of shame, guilt, and a unilateral disarmament of their chief moral weapon, the claim to innocence.

If you extol reason, then what matters is the integrity of the thoughts, not the personalities of the thinkers.

a bit of wisdom from the linguist Ann Farmer: "It isn't about being right. It's about getting it right.

Sensing the necessity to be wise and honest in order to succeed, he flees vice, or at least his demeanor exhibits decency and seriousness so as not to arouse any adverse judgment on the part of present and future acquaintances

As soon as we recognize that there is nothing morally commendable about the products of evolution, we can describe human psychology honestly, without the fear that identifying a "natural" trait is the same as condoning it.

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.

Love me or hate me, I always speak the truth.

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

If you love somebody, tell them.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.

I don't like hiding. I do like to keep certain things to myself, but at the end of the day, I'm eighteen, and I'm going to fall in love.

No matter how it looks to us, love never loses control; the laws of our relations are as honest and as exact as the laws of physics.

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

Lies kill love, it's been said. Well, what about frankness, then.

Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri

Love is love. It doesn't matter about sexuality, it's just about how you feel towards somebody else and being good and honest with them.