Honesty Quotes
I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.
I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.
Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.
You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.
Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.
You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!
The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.
The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.
Personal power is really the issue. It is only through tremendous attention to detail that you will be able to gain personal power and searing self-honesty.
When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.
I just think the way (for instance) evangelicals talk about God or Jesus, as in "Jesus says" or "the Bible says" points up a lack of honesty.
Crafted with care and with love, this beautifully constructed novel reveals hard truths and difficult secrets. Diana Davidson is a writer of great honesty and integrity, a writer to trust.
Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings.
Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.
Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.
I think, in all honesty, the first place that someone in emotional distress should turn is their loved ones, and then to use professionals.
I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.
The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.
There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.
When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.
A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.
Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.
Every song that has been a hit for me has been honest and truthful. I have to believe that same formula will work on this (television) show. It has to be believable and honest.
The secret to a happy marriage is patience and honesty. I really mean that. You have to be patient, you have to be open, and you also have to be available for criticism, too.
We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.
Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.
The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.
In all honesty, we don't know what's in the hearts of other men. All I know is that I respect comedy and I know comedy. I would never, ever, ever take somebody else's joke.
Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.
Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.
I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the honesty of the story.
