Quotes About Honesty

You must now--before God, Jon Stewart, and whoever's sleeping next to you (even if these entities are one and the same)--make a solemn oath.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think." June Jordan

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.

Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain.

You said i could call you when i wanted but that you wouldn't call me. you have to decide where and when, you said. if you leave it up to me i'll want to see you every day. At least you were honest, which is more than i can say for me.

Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, and the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.

She, of course, told me this shit, because she couldn't stop herself from telling me everything she's thinking.

You know, she said finally, we colored folks talk plenty of shit about loving our children but we really don't. She exhaled. We don't, we don't, we don't.

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.

What's wrong?" Jacob asked, already jogging down the steps, his hand stretched out to lighten my load if I needed it. "Hey, you okay?" No. I was a liar. And a cheater. And a coward. No different from his barista of a stepmother and his philanderer of a father.

Jacob narrowed his eyes at me, seeing me clearly without my two-faced mask, both sides made up — one with cosmetics, the other with lies.

Who's the bigger liar? Me or them? Isn't lying about love the worst lie? Isn't that worse than anything I've ever done?

My father is a liar and so am I. But I'm going to stop. I have to stop. I will tell you my story and I will tell it straight. No lies, no omissions. That's my promise. This time I truly mean it.

Ser una mentirosa no es fácil. Para empezar, has de tener muy presente el hilo de todas tus mentiras. Recordar exactamente qué has dicho y a quién se los ha dicho. Porque esa primera mentira siempre te conduce a la siguiente. Nunca hay una sola mentira.

Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself.

Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself. IRENAEUS OF LYONS