Quotes About Honesty

Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.

Those who have lied enough, in word and action, live there, in hell—now.

lies warp the structure of Being. Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.

You have to get along with other people. A therapist is one of those other people. A good therapist will tell you the truth about what he thinks. (That is not the same thing as telling you that what he thinks is the truth.) Then at least you have the honest opinion of at least one person. That's not so easy to get. That's not nothing. That's key to the psychotherapeutic process: two people tell each other the truth—and both listen.

not with intent to destroy, or attain victory, because that's not the truth: that's just all-out war).

Lying leads to Hell. It was the great and the small lies of the Nazi and Communist states that produced the deaths of millions of people.

He found people he admired; who were honest, despite everything. He took himself apart, piece by piece, let what was unnecessary and harmful die, and resurrected himself. Then he wrote The Gulag Archipelago, a history of the Soviet prison camp system.115 It's a forceful, terrible book, written with the overwhelming moral force of unvarnished truth. Its sheer outrage

To retool, to take stock, to aim somewhere better, you have to think it through, bottom to top. You have to scour your psyche. You have to clean the damned thing up. And you must be cautious, because making your life better means adopting a lot of responsibility, and that takes more effort and care than living stupidly in pain and remaining arrogant, deceitful and resentful.

What if she had continually and honestly risked

conflict in the present, in the service of longer-term truth and peace?

Do not hide unwanted things in the fog.

hands above waist level, where she can see them.

we don't leave a crucial outcome like honest communication up to chance. We ensure it by making it the sole responsibility of the salesperson, and then providing him or her with a bulletproof formula to achieve that outcome every time.

if you want an honest view of what's going on, you also have to consider the planes that didn't come back.

Starker [Leopold] had an adage for people in public service: 'If you're ashamed of it, don't do it. If you're not, publicize it.' " -David Graber, wildlife biologist at Yosemite National Park

When you have something to say, silence is a lie

Without the proper engagement in truth, your life will degenerate and you will end up embittered and in hell.

You look like a handsome young man…although you might want to zip your fly. Mom! What? Should I have not told you and left it for everyone else to notice at the dance?

You'll learn one day that real apologies don't come with a BUT in the middle.

Algú va dir que la veritat surt quan es busca.

Hay palabras que antes de ser escritas ya están muertas. Hay palabras que antes de ser pronunciadas ya están gastadas. Hay palabras que antes de ser oídas ya son mentiras. Palabras.

It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!

Sim, só havia uma solução, única e certa: Vadinho retornar para donde viera, só assim estariam garantidas a honestidade da esposa e a testa do droguista.

Ni miento ni me arrepiento