Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Brickman

The whole idea of my music now is honesty and really being who I am. It's not really something I decide, and it's not something that you learn.

Gretchen Wilson

They're the kind of people who were honest. They'd listen and tell me what they thought - the kind of honesty you need when you're trying to perfect your craft.

Howard Dean

A lot of them never made an honest living in their lives,

They didn't really threaten a whole lot, to be honest with you. We just pitched well.

Linford Christie

I took that as a racial connotation, to be honest with you.

I took one look at him and I thought, 'Now, there's a young man who every mother on the jury will love,' ... Years later, that's proven to be true. ... He's a plain, honest person that juries instinctively trust - and actually, so do judges.

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.

Greta Garbo

Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.

Gordon B. Hinckley

In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Simple honesty is so remarkable a quality. It is of the very essence of Integrity.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Integrity is at the heart of commerce in the world in which we live. Honesty and integrity comprise the very underpinnings of society.....Indeed, the strength and safety of any organization-including the family-lie in the integrity of its members. Without personal integrity, there can be no confidence. Without confidence, there can be no prospect of permanent success.

Glen Cook

I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks.

Gerrit Smith

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

Henry David Thoreau

A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.

Henry David Thoreau

Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.

Henry David Thoreau

I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again.

H. L. Mencken

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

Jillian Bell

I really learned how to improvise at the Groundlings.It's something I've always loved to do. For some reason it feels more honest at times.

Jessica Lynch

Honesty has always been very important to me.

Jeremy Collier

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity.

Ernest Hemingway

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

Ernest Hemingway

A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.

Ernest Hemingway

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Ernest Hemingway

A cat has absolute honesty.

Ernest Hemingway

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

Herbert Hoover

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

Henry Martyn

The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain.

Catharine Beecher

The people of this nation are eminently a trafficking people; and the present standard of honesty, as to trade and debts, is very low, and every year seems sinking still lower.

Grover Cleveland

I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise of administering the government in the honest, simple, and plain manner which is consistent with its character and purposes. They have learned that mystery and concealment in the management of their affairs cover tricks and betrayal. The statesmanship they require consists in honesty and frugality, a prompt response to the needs of the people as they arise, and a vigilant protection of all their varied interests.