Honesty Quotes

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Akira Kurosawa

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.

Simone Weil

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.

Dorothy L. Sayers

I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and transformed her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?

Jess C. Scott

The truth is everything in the end. It is the greatest power in the world to make all people equal. If everyone knows what the truth is, no one can use lies to separate those people and turn them against one another.

Mel Odom

When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.

Jess C. Scott

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.

Don Williams, Jr

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.

Truman Capote

The question takes me through the spectrum of human emotion and psychology, to the darkest, recesses of the human heart where hypocrisy and insincerity duel. Yes it is! There are times when it is perfectly ok to tell a lie, and given the precise circumstances, expected of the noble being.

Peyton Dracco

When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.

Criss Jami

I'm not going to force you into anything you don't want. But I'm also not going to take a vow of chastity and pine away for you, or whatever the hell it is that men do in romance novels these days. I have needs. I'd rather satisfy them with you, but if you don't want me I suppose I'll just have to find someone else. Might take me a while, but I'll make do. I always have before.

Nenia Campbell

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

Sylvia Plath

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.

Criss Jami

A liar only uses the truth when they want their lies to sound truthful.

Al David

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

Criss Jami

Honesty: what a refreshing slap in the face it is.

Timothy M. Brenner

Truth builds trust.

Marilyn Suttle

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

William Shakespeare

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.

Sandra Chami Kassis

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.

Yoko Ono