Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Sometimes when people say things, we should actually believe what they say.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

I'm someone, the same as my girlfriends, when they say what do you think about this, I don't always say they look fabulous. I say what I think.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

Well, it's really important to be honest with the person that you're seeing.

Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.

I think probably honesty is the biggest quality I look for in a relationship. Being exactly who you are with the other person.

Ya know, I just want a girl to be honest.

I really like working with people who believe what they're saying.

If you look deep inside trust, you'll find truth.

Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.

You have to really care about what you say. And if you don't, it will never come out quite right, unless you go into acting, in which case you have to act fast before you realize it is something which you do not believe in.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

I'm a big believer in you make your argument to everybody, and you do it in a way that is real and very candid. Even if people don't agree with you, they appreciate that you're telling them what you believe and they know that you care about them. That's I think a very important part of it that sometimes gets missed, is that people will be OK with you saying something they're not totally on-board with as long as they know that you believe it because you want to help them. That means you've got to care about everybody.

What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad.

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.