Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. G. Wells

I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress of civilization made possible only by vigorous and sometimes even, violent Lying; that the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good.

Jean de la Bruyere

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

Jay Leno

You've got Bush and Gore headed to the Supreme Court. You've got George W. Bush's intelligence will be pitted against Al Gore's honesty. This is more like a case for small claims court.

You can know someone in a moment of Honesty than ever you can in a lifetime of Lies..

Candace Bushnell

From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.

Burt Lancaster

I admire honesty and straightforwardness combined with true femininity.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

There are so many fools in the world for the devil to operate upon, it gives him the advantage oftentimes.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

Myles Munroe

The first basic need of a male is sexual fulfillment; for a female, affection. The second most basic need of a male is recreational companionship; for a female, communication and conversation. The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness. The fourth basic need of a male is domestic support; for a female, financial support. The fifth basic need of a male is admiration and respect; for a woman, family commitment.

Moliere

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

Nathan Fillion

I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.

Kelly Slater

I'm the competitor, I'm the one who has to wear the brunt of that being a good or bad score. And I'm not too worried about it. I don't know why so many are to be honest with you.

Ken Kesey

Don't say it...I've seen too many loves sundered by too much needless honesty.

Keri Hilson

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

Kerri Walsh

I honestly feel like my job since I was 22 has been to be an Olympian.

Ice T

If you get into crime you gotta know that everybody's a criminal and everybody's a liar, and everybody has the potential to backstab you, because it's not an honest profession. So don't go into crime and look for honesty.

Isaiah Berlin

The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.

Iris Dement

I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.

Irvine Welsh

You can't lie to your soul.

Gloria Steinem

... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has is not so good, no matter how intrinsically great it might be.

Harry S Truman

It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

Harry S Truman

I can always get along with an honest friend.

Immanuel Kant

Honesty is better than any policy.

H. G. Wells

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

H. L. Mencken

The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle

H. L. Mencken

[Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks of him, one thinks inevitably of such men as Goethe and Aristotle. For in him there was that rich, incomparable blend of intelligence and character, of colossal knowledge and high adventurousness, of instinctive honesty and indomitable courage which appears in mankind only once in a blue moon. There have been far greater scientists, even in England, but there has never been a scientist who was a greater man.

J. Reuben Clark

Eighteen months ago, when first I stood before you I called attention, as earnestly and seriously as I knew how, to what looked to me to be the dangers that were ahead, and I urged you at that time to practice the old virtues of thrift, of honesty, of truthfulness, of industry, and so on through the list of those I named. All that I said then I say again.

J. Reuben Clark

Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

Grant Morrison

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

Georg C. Lichtenberg

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve

Gene Hackman

Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.