George Duke Quotes

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

If you have feelings for someone, be honest with yourself and the person you care about, but trust that there is someone out there who will love you for who you are and will stay by your side.

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

Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

We can all go up to each other and be honest with each other. That's the biggest thing, when you can go out and speak to your brother.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other and have the courage to accept each other as we are.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

I want to date someone who likes who I am as a person and not what I do for a living.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

I could never be with a woman who felt like she needs to change me.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth.

I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.

It's not the traditional promise ring. It's basically to always stay truthful. I think that's a really important part of a relationship, that you're always honest with each other.

I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and say hello, I want to feel like I'm really meeting that person, not a masked version. I want to give that to people when they meet me. You don't have to like it. I'm not looking for you to like it; I'm looking to be myself.