Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ovid

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

Honesty, by evil fortune tried, Finds in adversity the seed of praise.

Paul Neilan

at first I thought you were just using me" she said "I definitely am." I just wasn't sure for what. "Asshole!" she said, and punched me in the side. And she laughed as my kidney began to hemorrhage. That's the beauty of honesty. Everyones so unused to hearing it they just assume you're kidding, and you get to feel very good and forthcoming without suffering any consequences except for traces of blood in your urine for the next day or two.

Paul Feig

Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each other on stuff; lots of insults and dirty names. Whereas women will talk frankly and honesty, but there also seems to be more passive aggressiveness.

Mary Hart

I honestly, sincerely love what I do.

Martha Beck

My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.

Martha Beck

True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you’re already learning how to make it less harmful.

Martha Beck

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

Michel de Montaigne

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

Michel de Montaigne

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Michel de Montaigne

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

Michel de Montaigne

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

Michel de Montaigne

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

Mark Twain

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Marianne Williamson

The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

Marianne Williamson

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

Mario Andretti

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

Mario Cuomo

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

Frank Ocean

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Francois Rabelais

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

George Carman

Above any commercial success one might enjoy, one's reputation for honesty is the most important thing

Christopher Darden

All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.

Christina Aguilera

I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

Harry Frankfurt

The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him . . . He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.

Harry Frankfurt

Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person's obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic exceed his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic. This discrepancy is common in public life, where people are frequently impelled-whether by their own propensities or by the demands of others - to speak extensively about matters of which they are to some degree ignorant.

Ford Frick

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

Fran Lebowitz

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

George Washington

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

George Washington

Honesty is always the best policy.

George Washington

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

George Washington

Have the strength to be an honest person.

George Washington

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.