Quotes About Honesty

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

When somebody says it's not about the money, it's about the money.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

No woman is really humble; she is merely politic. No woman, with a free choice before her, chooses self-immolation; the most she genuinely desires in that direction is a spectacular martyrdom. No woman delights in poverty. No woman yields when she can prevail. No woman is honestly meek.

The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded, and disbursed only when absolutely necessary.

Can't you hear how everyone tells lies; if not deliberately, then involuntarily; if not out loud, then silently?

Truth telling, therefore, has to be an ultimate value, until it clashes with another ultimate value, pleasure, at which point, to state the obvious, there is conflict.

The truth is a tattoo on your forehead. You can't see it yourself. I am your mirror.

The truth is always a surprise.

Asentí con la cabeza. Al fin y al cabo asentir no puede considerarse exactamente una mentira, ¿no?

Istina nas uvek iznenadi.

NIkad se nisam zamajavao nacelima vernosti ili okovima tradicionalnog. Cestitost je patolosko nasilje a dobrota prepreka.

Wat zou ik anders moeten doen? Ik kan de mensen toch niet zeggen: 'Jullie begrijpen me verkeerd. In feite voel ik in mijn hart iets anders!' Dat is pas belachelijk.

Sólo se puede confiar en las palabras si uno está seguro de que su función es revelar y no ocultar.

If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.

Is that what you wanted to hear?" "No." The man reached over, took hold of the lantern, and blew it out. Night enveloped the barn. "Well," he said at last to the darkness between them, "that's when you know it's the truth.

But he hasn't got anything on, a little child said.

But he hasn't got anything on! the whole town cried out at last.

The truth may be better than lies... But it doesn't always set you free.

the cardinal rule: You never have to take back words you don't say.

With everyone else, you put up this facade so you can hide the crud and make them like you. But with real friends, you show them the crud-and that makes them care. When we get rid of the facade, we connect more.