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I've always felt protected. That's the God's honest truth.
Oct 2, 2025
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
Youth is the only thing worth having.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
When truth is divided, errors multiply.
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.
Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That's the key to really honest, truthful, compelling performance.
Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
...there is the sheer emotional, intellectual, physical, chemical pleasure of your children. The honest truth is that the world holds no greater gratification than lying in bed with your children, putting your leg on top of them in a semi-crushing manner, while saying sternly, "You are a poo.
Our lives improve only when we take chances.
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
So much wanting and longing, clutching, desiring, passion and hatred and terrible need. Here, death was suitable, there was room for it, the grip of life's relentless urges slackened, replaced by this icy simplicity. This wasnt her death. It was his. That was the sad and honest truth. Though it would stay with her, it would be more like a black onyx heart on a silver chain, worn privately, under her clothes, close to her body, all her life. The guilt, the beauty, everything. It wasnt over, it had only begun. Well ok then, Okay.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
The honest truth is that it was just traumatizing with the piano, with the authority of the piano teacher, getting rapped across the knuckles, and so whenever you put a piece of music in front of me, there's a Pavlovian reaction where it starts off.
Where's the church, who took the steeple, Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people, Television preachers with bad hair and dimples, The God's honest truth is, it's not that simple
Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.
Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.
The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.