Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.

Wernher von Braun

It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance.

Wale

Sometimes I'm just a little bit too honest. There was some things that were going on behind the scenes that I didn't like because it's not what hip-hop is about. Hip-hop is about honesty and it's about being real to the people, and I kinda felt like there's some instances where some artists aren't 100% honest with the people. Their integrity is lacking sometimes. And sometimes it comes out.

Samuel Smiles

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. . . .

Samuel Richardson

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

Salman Rushdie

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

Salman Rushdie

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Ryan Tedder

Honest always sells. Always has, always will.

Kent Haruf

Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.

Kent Beck

Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me to pairing, test-first, incremental design, continuous integration and so on because they support the values.

Kenneth Branagh

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

Kelly Rowland

Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.

Kelly Rowland

I just feel like Brits are honest - period. And that's what I like.

Katy Perry

Honesty has always worked for me.

Katy Perry

I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

Ralph Ellison

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied

Radha Mitchell

To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Scarlett Thomas

Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me.

Liam Hemsworth

Honestly, I'm not an extravagant person, I don't spend a lot of money.

Thom Yorke

Someone once asked me how the universe was created, I told him it all began with Pablo Honey

Theresa May

The public want honesty from their politicians.Not showy gimmicks.

Terry Pratchett

Things have no power that humans don't put there.

Terry Pratchett

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

Terry Goodkind

Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.

Terrence Howard

When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.

Tennessee Williams

Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm!

Temple Grandin

You can be honest without sharing your opinions on everything.

Randeep Hooda

There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.