“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”— Guy de Maupassant, goodreads.com
“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I’m beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly an…”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“No one can tell another man is true. Truth is all around us...Truth is where ever man has glimpsed divinity.”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”— Eleanor Roosevelt,, amazon.com
“In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.”— Jenny Han, amazon.com
“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.”— Antisthenes, amazon.com
“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, goodreads.com
“I’m going to tell you something: thoughts are never honest. Emotions are. Do not go around asking for honesty in what people think; much of what they perceive as thinking is empty anyway because it’s thought out again and again and comes out refined and muddy. The ones who know how to feel might hav…”— Albert Camus, goodreads.com
“Be strong. Don’t be a follower. Always do the right thing. If you have a choice between the right or wrong, do the right.”— Jennifer Lawrence, parade.com
“I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.”— Jeffrey MCDaniel, goodreads.com
“Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.”— Iain Banks, amazon.com
“I have plenty of people around me to talk to, and no one to be honest with.”— Helen Oyeyemi, amazon.com
“I’ve never trusted anyone all the time. It’s the people I care about the most that always seem to do the most damage.”— Jay Crownover, amazon.com