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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

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Agatha ChristieThe Mysterious Affair at Styles

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harde...

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Akira KurosawaSomething Like an Autobiography

Superstars come and go. I want to make sure I am always a producer's actor. I may be refused to be c...

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You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

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Albert CamusThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am asto...

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Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outwei...

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You should have seen him,” she said. “A real ladies’ man. Stuff in his hair. Dark glasses. Fancy sho...

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Alexander McCall SmithThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by thei...

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Learn to access the cosmic trust. Life will be easy.

This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene...

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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating ...

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André GidePretexts;: Reflections on literature and morality

In a world in which everyone cheats, it's the honest man who passes for a charlatan.

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André GideThe Counterfeiters

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly abo...

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Idle Jeffrey, when asking his cousin for money: "I fear I have not a mercenary tendency." The Chance...

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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroo...

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To admit what you see endangers principles.

...he'll come back. We all come back, kate. These private little revolutions always die. The comprom...

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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it...

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People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little ro...

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Audre LordeSister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is...

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When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners to...

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A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards...in order to appeal to the irrationalit...

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Ayn RandThe Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and ...

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Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationsh...

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The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat o...

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Practically every mental health care practitioner, from the most erudite psychoanalysts to untrained...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who...

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As more people have found the courage to break through shame and speak about woundedness in their li...

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Understanding knowledge as an essential element of love is vital because we are bombarded daily with...

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The essence of true love is mutual recognition-two individuals seeing each other as they really are....

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.

I have been accused of a habit of changing my opinions. I am not myself in any degree ashamed of hav...

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I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it tak...

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together. What our young people want to see in thei...

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Being pure in conduct also includes honesty and integrity in dealing with our fellowmen. A Christian...

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together. What our young people want to see in thei...

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Being pure in conduct also includes honesty and integrity in dealing with our fellowmen. A Christian...

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together. What our young people want to see in thei...

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Being pure in conduct also includes honesty and integrity in dealing with our fellowmen. A Christian...

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together. What our young people want to see in thei...

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Being pure in conduct also includes honesty and integrity in dealing with our fellowmen. A Christian...

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together. What our young people want to see in thei...

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Being pure in conduct also includes honesty and integrity in dealing with our fellowmen. A Christian...

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together. What our young people want to see in thei...

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Being pure in conduct also includes honesty and integrity in dealing with our fellowmen. A Christian...

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together. What our young people want to see in thei...

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Being pure in conduct also includes honesty and integrity in dealing with our fellowmen. A Christian...

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together. What our young people want to see in thei...

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Being pure in conduct also includes honesty and integrity in dealing with our fellowmen. A Christian...

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What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It’s having a clean conscience. I h...

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I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them wh...

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Brandon SandersonAlcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?""I consider their...

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The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”“The only honest things I can say to...

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The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinio...

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It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled w...

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C. S. LewisLetters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from o...

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C. S. LewisLetters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

[If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the...

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Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from t...

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Carl SaganBroca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to s...

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There’s more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie, but you lie...

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We’re meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not fromthe truth. That’s what it means ...

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I don't think it's more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, in the en...

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips...

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I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't tru...

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It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies...

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Winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything.

He showed the fineness of his nature by being kinder to me after that misunderstanding than before. ...

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There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl...

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I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest...

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It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

Presidents lie all the time. Really great presidents lie. Abraham Lincoln managed to end slavery in ...

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Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices so...

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It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late. I...

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Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish every...

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Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are ...

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In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pis...

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Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we s...

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I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.