Famous Quotes & Sayings

a lack of judgment. I really don't understand it, to be honest with you.

It's the mark of honesty when a person takes the witness stand.

James E. Faust

Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency to make choices, but ultimately we will be accountable for each choice we make. We may deceive others, but there is One we will never deceive. From the Book of Mormon we learn, "The keeper of the gate is the Holy One of Israel; and he employeth no servant there; and there is none other way save it be by the gate; for he cannot be deceived, for the Lord God is his name." [2 Nephi 9:41]

Euripides

Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.

Euripides

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Euripides

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Cassandra Clare

There’s more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor —

Carolyn Kizer

I happen to believe that there are a lot of good poets around at present, but a poet like Alex Kuo, who possesses a highly developed moral sense and a bitter honesty, is rare at any time and especially in this time. We need him.

Carolyn Jones

The best thing about me is that I am generally very honest - not hurtfully honest, but honest. The worst thing about me is that everybody can make me feel guilty. I feel responsible about things that don't even concern me.

Evo Morales

We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty...

Mindy Grossman

I believe in accessibility. I believe in honesty and a culture that supports that. And you can't have that if you're not open to receiving feedback.

Frank Zappa

My balls feel like a pair of maracas.

Fred Rogers

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

George Hamilton

Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

Harold B. Lee

To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great men and women and point the way by which one may find happiness in the living of today and eternal joy in the world to come. These are the qualities which are the anchors to our lives, in spite of the trials, the tragedies, the pestilences, and the cruelties of war which bring in their wake appalling destruction, hunger, and bloodshed

Harold B. Lee

As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are.

Graham Spanier

Tim Curley and Gary Schultz operate at the highest levels of honesty, integrity and compassion.

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..

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.