Quotes about Honesty

My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

These are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness . . . —FROM THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL:

Could you be anything but bluntly honest with a wide-awake human being?

They are never going to invite you back, so you might as well open your mouth and unload both barrels of that gun. Say what you got to say.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

If the BJP government, like the Congress party, had asked what were the numbers on the fraction of people under a particular income, would I have not told them the truth? I would have told them exactly. I would have been as willing.

I never faked my emotions or my desire to be a winner.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

In the quiet of an early morning, honesty finds me. It calls to me through a crack in my soul and invites the real me to come out, come out, wherever you are. Not the carefully edited edition of the me I am this year. No, honesty wants to speak to the least tidy version of the woman I've become. The one I can't make look more alive with a few swipes of mascara and a little color on my lips.

People become trustworthy when they are trusted.