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"If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself."
"This is what we desire in intimate relationships but this deep connection is often so frightful that most do not take advantage of the opportunities presented for honesty."
"The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it."
"When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar."
"Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek."
"For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history that it can occur at night in darkened rooms where small children sleep. However, surely not in academia. Surely lying and deception do not occur among people who go to conferences, who write books, who testify in court, and who have PhDs.At one point I complained to a Florida judge that I was astonished to an expert witness lying on the stand [about child sexual abuse research]. I thought one had to tell the truth in court. I thought if someone didn't, she didn't get her milk and cookies. I thought God came down and plucked someone right out of the witness stand if he lied in court. I thought a lying expert witness would step out of court and get hit by a bus. A wiser woman than I, the judge's answer was, Silly you."Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Learned Author: Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998"
"Sure I find it very liberating and empowering now; but at first, it took me a while to get used to the uncomfortably vulnerable feeling that comes along with being honest."
"There is nothing you will ever do that is more important than being honest about who you really are."
"Honesty can be a dirty gift. It can muddy a sparkling stream of memories."
"If you're not honest with your work if you're being merely decorative then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They know when they are being tricked by clever metaphors . . . by dishonesty in the artist."
"Witnessing honesty frightens some people because they haven't known authenticity in their own life."
"Here it was, the first of many lies hed have to come up with. Bella threw a knife at my head. Hed do better with the next lie."
"More than one thing is never true. People love to say the opposite, love to talk about inner conflict, nuances, levels of complication. But if this last year has taught her anything, it has taught her that people are clearer on what they want than they admit to themselves. They want something, or they dont. They decide to keep working at a relationship or they give up. They love someone or they love someone else. And if they love someone else, it is often the idea that they love most, especially when they havent learned enough to figure out that this new person probably wont save them either."
"Mercy should be given once to a person and it is priceless. This person then should be very honest and should promise not to commit the same particular mistake again."
"You are lost because you have not been being honest with yourself, and your life is largely unexamined and unexerted."
"When you dont have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart"
"I'm an old man now. Old on the inside. I'm a drunk, and I hate to tell you, but I'm not prepared to change. So you have to figure out if you want to forgive me and love me like I am, or run away again. Or hell, stay here and hate me. Just...know that I love you the best way I know how. I always have. I do the best I can."
"The most precious etchings of caring can be traced not in the scope of its message, but in the integrity of its purpose."
"Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you."
"Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in."