Honesty Quotes

It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

Criss Jami

...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.

Patti Smith

Nobody believes a liar...even when he is telling the truth!

Aesop

Where's the church, who took the steeple, Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people, Television preachers with bad hair and dimples, The God's honest truth is, it's not that simple

Jimmy Buffett

Deep layers of context are missed when cursorily reading for quantity at the expense of comprehension - only the vapid are impressed by those who try to squeeze as many books as possible into each passing month as if shoving one more oiled hot dog down the gullet in a food eating contest to prove accumulation superiority.

Wil Zeus

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.

Muriel Rukeyser

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.

Mike Norton

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

Leo Tolstoy

In simplicity there is truth.

River Phoenix

Seit wir den Glauben und damit die Wahrheit verloren haben, liegt zwischen Heuchelei und Ehrlichkeit der letzte Unterschied, der uns bleibt.

Juli Zeh

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy

George Bernard Shaw

There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

William Shakespeare

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

Paulo Coelho

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Omega Maverick

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

William Faulkner

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

James Allen

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

Terry Goodkind

Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.

Steve Maraboli