Honesty Quotes - Page 9

The truth is not what it seems, but what it is.

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected. But the one lied to almost never shares this view. The moment we consider our dishonesty from the point of view of those we lie to, we recognize that we would feel betrayed if the roles were reversed.

Sam Harris

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards...in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others.

Ayn Rand

Honesty is love but deception is hatred.

Ahmed Mayouf

All aspects of honor derive from honesty. A liar cannot truly be honorable, for where is the honor in deception?

Keith R.A. DeCandido

Somehow I get the idea that being whole is about being perfectly consistent. I'd rather we be perfectly honest.

Danielle LaPorte

...[F]rom me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language... decked out with fine words and phrases; no, what you will hear will be a straightforward speech in the first words that occur to me, confident as I am in the justice of my cause; and I do not want any of you to expect anything different.

Socrates

Sometimes Caesar gets killed cos Brutus is an Honest Man.

Talees Rizvi

Sports teach us the value of facing yourself and others honestly. You can only grow if you let go of denial and embrace what is real and true.

Corey Irwin

It's not your imperfections that make you attractive,it's your honesty about them that does.

Drishti Bablani

I'd rather die than live without passion.

Jeon Jungkook

it is your life and you have to live your life as you want but you must have courage to pay by your self for the life which you are living , if someone other is paying by their tears and grief for your enjoyment ,then you are living a shameful life.

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

Because it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels, he thought...

Virginia Woolf

I know stating my observation aloud is considered fresh, an indiscrete come-on, but frankly I think more people should hear the truth about themselves. Screw what society thinks, right?” – Jack Buchanan

Caroline George

Don't lie to protect my feelings. I'd rather you speak the truth with love and respect. I'll be fine!

Izey Victoria Odiase

Honesty Is Soul Of Love"Laila Majnu,Shirin Farhad,Romeo Juliet,These love stories are immortal,ideal love stories ,not because of love but because of honesty,honesty which they keep hold for their beloved,Love is there in every love story but not honesty so Only love story which has honesty its become Immortal and ideal love story.

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

Honey, she says, honest ain’t the half of what I’m not.

Alden Bell

Why should i blame world, if i get wrong to recognize true and real faces of people

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

Why should i have fake smile on my face ,If my heart and soul suffering in unrest. it's not my duty to entertain you But its my responsibility to be Honest and Original

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

A conscious understanding of the kind of cloth we wear, each moment of time, makes us be aware of what we must do or what we should never think of doing because of the cloth we wear!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I want to say to you: Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.

John Patrick Shanley

Never get your sense of worth from outside yourself. Never fall into the trap of thinking that who you are is not enough and that you need other people’s approval, love and validation in order to feel that you’re of value. Never allow external things, places, people and circumstances to determine or tell you how much you’re worth. It’s called self-worth, not others’ worth.

Luminita D. Saviuc

Sure, I liked girls but I was always too terrified to speak to them unless we were arguing or I was calling them stupidos, which was one of my favorite words that year.

Junot Díaz

But the inexplicability of the General's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts. That he was very particular in his eating, she had, by her own unassisted observation, already discovered; but why should he say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable. How were people, at that rate, to be understood?

Jane Austen

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use.

Clarence Darrow

Craigengelt, you are either an honest fellow in right good earnest, and I scarce know how to believe that; or you are cleverer than I took you for, and I scarce know how to believe that either.

Walter Scott

In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out, "that is, all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart"!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He came to chat with me the day of my being discharged, advising that I not stay at the dog fight until the last dog was dead. I was a kid and made little counsel. Now that I am a bigger kid, I see the value--belatedly--added. Yet I also see the loss of life in the protecting, first of all, of oneself. Better to give oneself away. Dead f*ck the dog and so on.

Gordon Lish

Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.

Sena Jeter Naslund

Orozco's despair was not just in finding himself poor, but in discovering that effort, honest intentions, and gentlemanly status had nothing to do with sucess in a commercial economy.

Timothy Brook

All too often people pretend to be professional. "Professionalism" is sometimes a facade for fraud. Be pro, but be real. Honesty and transparency combined with character, competence and real results is the key to being a true pro.

Richie Norton

There's no need to kick him in the balls for him to tell the story honestly and impartially, because the dead are usually honest, even the bastards among them.

Hassan Blasim

...God expects every man to be what he claims to be. If we say things we do not believe, and profess things we do not feel, and lay claim to things we do not possess, we are tricksters and deceivers, causing mischief and confusion in the world.

Charles Jefferson

Honesty isn't easy. Or comfortable.

Kara Lee Corthron

I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side.

G.K. Chesterton

People don't like it when you say real things.

Sara Baume

When a honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.

Harry Frankfurt

The easy truth is as much a lie as any.

Sasha Martin

The truth is simple.Lies are complex.The truth comes in sentences.Lies... in paragraphs.Pay attention to this when someone is communicating with you.

Steve Maraboli

Tell people how it is, be real and be honest.If you see something wrong make sure you speak up.Being this way will naturally eliminate the snakes and fakes.

John Maiorana (Giovanni)

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

Henry David Thoreau

You believe what you do.

Elan Mastai

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.

William Gaddis

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

T.M. Brenner

Things work out better when you're straight up.

Kate Jacobs

It's honest to admit you'll kill someone because you hate them.

Fuyumi Soryo

Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that Mr. Honesty lives in at the end of his career?

Wilkie Collins

Repose not trust in testing another's degree of honesty at the risk of one's loss in matters big, unless collateralized.

Firoozeh Dumas

It is a great evil to look upon mankind with too clear vision. You seem to be living among wild beasts, and you become a wild beast yourself. ("“The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah”)

William Beckford

Honesty is all I've got," she said finally, speaking in a low voice. "I don't have family. I don't have beauty, or a man. I don't have money, and I sure as hell don't have a future. All I've got to prop up my pride is my word." Her chin rose. "When Jenny Jones says something, you can bet your last peso that it's true.

Maggie Osborne

Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve.

Veronica Roth

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

Roddy Doyle

For there is no virtue, the honor and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people.

Plutarch

I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that—and we are, but it's not with both eyes. We've got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we're the best team we can be for November.

Ricky Ponting

(I)f you're not honest with yourself, life will never be honest with you.

Leigh Brackett

...his respect, hard enough to earn in the first place, was all but impossible to win back after it was lost.

Becky Allen

And everyone lived happily, thought maybe not completely honestly, ever after. The End.

Jon Scieszka

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.

Isabel Allende

I'm fully aware that some of the stuff I write is going to offend people or p*ss them off. They should be fully aware that I don't really care.

Briana Blair

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