Quotes About Honesty

Yeah, well you know what they say. Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

The cubs looked into Mama's eyes, then at each other, and then they began to tell one of the biggest whoppers that has ever been told in Bear Country.  

A Bear Scout... Is as honest as the day is long. Admire when he or she is wrong. Respects the creatures of creation. Views TV in moderation. Is never cruel, rude, or mean. Plays the game fair and clean. Does his best at school. Following the golden rule, always respects the rights of others, including even sisters' and brothers'.

He had a clear conscience. Never used it.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.

Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.

What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.

Even if I had gone further than in all honesty I should have done, my lies, those lies born of pity, had made her happy; and to make a person happy could never be a crime.

He makes it his task to be wholly sincere with himself, and he notes this definition of wisdom which he finds in Pindar: "True being is the beginning of a great virtue.

La vérité à demi ne vaut rien, il la faut toujours entière.

O femeie este cu atît mai nobil? È™i mai cinstit? cu cît urmeaz?, liber?, sentimentul ei sincer, îndelung încercat – È™i o regin? este cu atît mai regal?, cu cît se poart? cît mai omeneÈ™te.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness

I used to love mathematics for its own sake, and I still do, because it allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness....

You will never regret speaking up and being wrong. But you will if you don't and you're dead right.

My dear Jane, if you have not understood, by this time, that I love but one woman in the world--then we have nothing further to say.

I just wanted to be open and honest, and being open and honest is a practice rather than a quality.

Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215

We'll make leadplant tea instead of coffe.Just tell them it's imported." Jesse whispered. "Mama,you taught me never to lie," LisBeth chided. "Well,it is imported-from the prairie!

Don't even tell me you're going to pull the old 'we both have to be naked' thing to warm you up, she mumbled.

He blinked at her visible honesty, at the earnestness on her face, and something inside him turned, knowing that he was the one responsible for the release of her tension. He'd made her feel better without even trying. What a guy. Then she reached into the tub, grabbed the gun, and shot him in the heart.

Integrity is unity of the personality; it implies being brutally honest with ourselves about our intentionality. Since intentionality is inextricably bound up with the daimonic, this is never an easy, nor always pleasant pursuit. But being willing to admit our daimonic tendencies - to know them consciously and to wisely oversee them - brings with it the invaluable blessing of freedom, vigor, inner strength, and self-acceptance.

I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

You needn't think there is nothing you can do-you can tell the truth.