Quotes About Honesty

Ä°nsan?n en büyük dalkavuÄŸu kendisidir, bu dalkavukluktan kurtulman?n en iyi yolu da bir dostun içtenliÄŸidir.

Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom; for it asketh a strong wit, and a strong heart, to know when to tell truth, and to do it. Therefore it is the weaker sort of politics, that are the great dissemblers.

All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.

Let us wash the cosmetics from our souls and look at the unadorned condition of our hearts.

We should realize that the greatest defense we can have against the devil is to maintain an honest heart before God.

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

The political motive in the academic breast is honest enough. It is fear---genuine, perpetual, heart-felt timorousness. All the Political Arguments are addressed to this passion. Have you ever noticed how people say, 'I'm afraid I don't ...' when they mean, 'I think I don't ...'?

If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

Nadie ofrece tanto como el que no va a cumplir

Y eres así a la espada parecida, que matas más desnuda que vestida.

Mas, vulgo, pues sé quién eres, a la larga o a la corta diga yo lo que me importa y di tú lo que quisieres.

Un gobierno que se vende como honesto modifica la ley para ajustarla a sus caprichos; otorga directamente, sin licitación, contratos multimillonarios o, para inhibir las previsibles protestas por la construcción de la nueva refinería de Dos Bocas, auspicia una reforma al Código Penal de Tabasco, la llamada "ley garrote".

Healing takes place when grievances are given ample and patient space to be acknowledged, when there is transparency and honesty, when everybody is given the chance to be heard, when nobody is excluded, when people can accept the energy of the conflict and use it as a major opportunity for growth.

You have complete permission to enter my mind, probing all my thoughts, looking for whatever you need to know. There is nothing I intend to hide from you. No matter what you will find, either luminous or dark, you can rest assured that in my heart I deeply love you and I want the best for you, and... I do mean you!

When we exaggerate our friends tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.

To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives.

A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil — there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

A man who calls bullshit fertilizer.