Honesty Quotes - Page 5

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

You should not honor men more than truth.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.

Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.

A sincere friend conceals all your deformities, deceives and convince others that you are extremely perfect, the insincere will tell the truth of destruction, leave you open for others to glare and laugh.

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

She hadn't lied. She hadn't betrayed anyone's trust; still, she felt she had done something wrong. Or rather, she had not yet done the right thing. Was there a difference between these two sins?

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

People only lie because they are afraid of the truth

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work he did. He did not seek redemption. He sought to see what others did not, the projection of his imagination.