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Honesty Quotes
"He doesn't play the game ... He refuses to lie. Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler. But Meursault, contrary to appearances, doesn't want to make life simpler. He says what he is, he refuses to hide his feelings and society immediately feels threatened."
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"Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare."
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"I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty."
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"Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate."
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"There's hostility to lying, and there should be."
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"I really believe that it is honesty about our imperfect selves that makes everyone do better and be better."
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"He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone."
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"If there is an essence to this wordly life, then it is the basis of honesty [morality]. If you have little wealth but have honesty even then you will attain peace. And if you do not have honesty but lot of wealth even then restlessness will remain within."
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"I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it."
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"There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them."
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"Semantics, Admiral. I'd appreciate an honest answer."I'd appreciate a multitude of honest answers, but I rarely expect to receive them. Miriam sighed; the verbal tete-a-tete was growing tiresome. Time to bring an end to it with, ironically, honesty."
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"I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty."
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"Once...Why...lie?...when...truth is...the easier path."
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"Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something.""Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?"I cringe and say, "Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?"..."Maybe you were cut out for Candor," he says, "because you're a terrible liar."
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"It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible."
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"Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live."
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"Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for."
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"Your thoughts are transparent."
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"Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble."
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"Everyman has the ability to lie but luckily not everyman has the ability to hide their lies masterly!"
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"Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity."
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"It's one thing to give out excellent advice, but quite another to personally swallow it."
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"Still, one can be honest yet quite mistaken."
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"A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty."
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"I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods."
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"A kind 'no' from the heart is better than a deceitful 'yes' from the tongue."
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