Quotes about Honesty
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
— Will Rogers
We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.
— Will Rogers
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
— Will Rogers
An honest assessment of our own capabilities, without conceit and without false modesty, is one of the first essentials of a useful life.
— William Barclay
I'll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.
— William Goldman
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
— William Hazlitt
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
— William Hazlitt
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
— William James
We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
— Brennan Manning
For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry for them because they are doing so much harm to themselves.
— Mother Teresa
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
— John Ortberg