Honesty Quotes - Page 4

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".

Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.

This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the day I only have me and I didn't seem to like my own company. I decided to I had to make myself into someone I can live with.

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

Just always be honest about your feelings. If everyone did that then the world would be a much simpler place.

There's honesty embedded everywhere when you see the world through the eyes of a child.

Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.

You want to take me to a movie?" I asked.
"Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.

She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", it's just "fuck it, man.

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

Honesty is the best policy.

Truth builds trust.

I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.