Quotes About Honesty

Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.

Ramona required accuracy from books as well as people.

She told us we must always rotate our crops and never, never perjure ourselves.

Finding a man who tells the truth is like looking for a dinosaur

There are some things in life that just have to be faced up to, whether you want to or not.

Surrounding yourself with sycophants and bootlickers is the surest route to failure.

We have to do better. We have honest differences. We need vigorous debates. Healthy skepticism is good. It saves us from being too naive or too cynical. But it is impossible to preserve democracy when the well of trust runs completely dry.

There is nothing I value more in subordinates than their willingness to tell me I'm wrong, to challenge me, to sharpen my decision making. Surrounding yourself with sycophants and bootlickers is the surest route to failure.

But we can't solve a problem like climate change without an honest accounting of how much we need to do and what obstacles we need to overcome.

Accepting your shadow side is an essential part of being authentic.

truth telling is more important than peace keeping.

God doesn't want us to pile up impressive phrases. He doesn't want us to use words without thinking about their meaning. He wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father—authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly. I heard a man do this once when I least expected it.

To love as Jesus loves we have to put truth telling ahead of peace keeping. We also have to put the other person's well-being ahead of the comfort level of our relationship.

If somebody asks if you tweeted your penis and your answer is anything other than No, you tweeted your penis.

One of the advantages of -- of this -- is that dying men are allowed complete and brutal candor.

Remember, a fact is a fact, no matter how hard the liars amongst you might try hushing it up.

We'll crucify the insincere tonight

The English poet Alexander Pope said, "An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

You're a big boy now; you'll never let her go, but that's just the kind of thing she ought to know. Tell her about it. Tell her everything you feel. Giver her every reason to accept that you're for real.

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

It is absurd of us to rely on the company of our fellows, as wretched and helpless as we are; they will not help us; we shall die alone. We must act then as if we were alone. If that were so, would we build superb houses, etc.? We should unhesitatingly look for the truth. And, if we refuse, it shows that we have a higher regard for men's esteem than for pursuing the truth.

To tell the truth is useful to those to whom it is spoken, but disadvantageous to those who tell it, because it makes them disliked.

I set it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

Weaklings are those who know the truth, but maintain it only as far as it is in their interest to do so, and apart from that forsake it.