Quotes About Honesty

I wrote. Something. Yes. And you were truthful. No. You weren't truthful? I was accurate.

All men were liars and he was no doubt no different—only one tongue and more tales than the dog pound.

He would live to see people praised for things that were not worthy of praise, simply because truth was seen to be bad for their feelings.

And you were truthful. No. You weren't truthful? I was accurate.

She always preferred strong lies to weak truths

I had written all I was going to write, if the truth had been known, and there is nothing wrong with that. If more writers knew that, the world would be saved a lot of bad books, and more people--men and women alike--could go on to happier, more productive lives.

It's odd, though, what makes you think about the truth. It's so rarely involved in the events of your life. I quit thinking about the truth for a time then. Its finer points seems impossible to find among the facts.

Life had begun to demand lies in order to be workable. And I was willing to tell one, or many more than one

When I was growing up here, slavery was hardly ever mentioned," said Regina. "Or people would say that the slaves were happy and well looked after, and the Civil War was about states' rights and honor. You still hear that, of course, but we are finally making some progress. The best thing we can do about our awful history is to acknowledge it openly and honestly.

the tongues of men are not much leashed by concerns for accuracy or truth.

It seems lies come very easily to your race. They lie to those they lead, to their mates and fellows no matter how close- drawn, even to themselves if it will make the world around them more bearable. It is hard to know what to believe in this place." Something

Lies are a precious currency—you have to be careful how and where you spend them.

Working with the morning pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the record for public display.

Today, I take the time to get my friends and acquaintances current on the shifts in my inner life. I communicate clearly and openly. I allow time for people to adjust to the ways in which I have changed. I, too, adjust to the change in others.

If you drop the lamb, just pick it up. Who's going to know?

Morty trusted trees far more than he did people. 'You know what a tree can and cannot give you,' he said in one interview. 'It's very straightforward that way. And I am not talking about that cruel Silverstein book, one of the only children's books I've ever thought ought to be banned.

Deny it to yourself, but never to me.

We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them.

Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.

But if being on the level didn't shield you from pain, maybe it was better to be up in the clouds.

You might even ask me to apply my 'theory' to myself and explain what damage I had suffered a long way back and what its consequences might be: for instance, how it might affect my reliability and truthfulness. I'm not sure I could answer this, to be honest.

Though always frank, the novelist was never wholly sincere.

The way, the truth and the life. You go on your way through life telling the truth.

But then, no one told the whole truth about sex. And in that respect, nothing has changed.