Complete honesty is not the same thing as full disclosure.

“We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in…

— Mark Lawrence

Honesty is always the best policy.

— George Washington

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the…

— Kathryn Stockett

Truth and honesty is my thing.

— Karrine Steffans

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

— Josh Billings

How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much…

— Duke Ellington

I hate to tell you, dragon, but that's an integral part of the whole usiness," he whispered. "If you're afraid to touch me then…

— Anne Stuart

Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not…

— Clement Greenberg

"Openness" [story] ultimately asks this same question - can a relationship survive complete honesty? As a romantic, I want to say "Yes, of course!"…

— Alexander Weinstein

The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.

— Sylvia Boorstein

In reality, humility means nothing other than complete honesty about yourself.

— Louis William Countryman

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he…

— Bob Woodward

Now I believe that people need to understand what's happening in my campaign, and they're going to get three or four snapshots of that,…

— Craig Benson

True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be…

— Desmond Tutu

In New Zealand, we have a one-party disclosure system, where if one of you knows you're being recorded, it's completely fine. It doesn't matter…

— David Farrier