#honesty

Hypocrites get offended by the truth. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#freedom-of-speech #freedom-of-thought #honest #honesty #hypocrite

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. ↗

— Mira Nair

#am #artifice #best #children #clothes

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#foreign-policy #friendship #honesty #nations #peace

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones ↗

— John Lennon

#friendship

The day my mother gave us the keys, she also made me and Greta sign a form so that the bank knew our signatures. To get in we had to show our key and sign something so they would know it was really us. I was worried that my signature wouldn't look the same. I wasn't sure when that thing would happen that made it so you always signed your name exactly the same, but it hadn't happened to me yet. So far I'd only had to sign something three times. Once for a code of conduct for the eighth grade field trip to Philadelphia, once for a pact I made with Beans and Frances Wykoski in fifth grade that we'd never have boyfriends until high school. (Of the three of us, I'm the only one who kept that pact.) ↗

— Carol Rifka Brunt

#humor #musings #truth #home

I suppose if we gain anything from this unsought experience it will be an appreciation for honesty- frankness on the part of our politicians, our friends, our loves, ourselves. No more liars in public places. (And the bed and the bar are, in their way, as public as the floor of Congress.) ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#lying #politics #war #experience

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#honesty #imagination

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#clear #dark #disguise #glass #heart

Walking away from bad situations and negative people sets a healthier tone for the rest of your life. It also gives those who do not know any better the opportunity to self-correct. ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#energy-healing #enlightenment #god #higher-self #holy-spirit

Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#beliefs #church #family #friendships #honesty