Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honesty is the foundation for trust; you can't have one without the other.

Bono

It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'

Arthur Schopenhauer

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness, honesty and sincerity, and are intent only on passing ourselves off for what we are not. We then assume, like those three sophists [Fichte, Schelling and Hegel], first a false pathos, then an affected and lofty earnestness, then an air of infinite superiority, in order to impose where we despair of ever being able to convince.

Aristophanes

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

Antonio Porchia

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.

Bruce Jenner

To be honest with you, being Bruce isn't easy.

Bruce Lee

To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do.

Brooke Shields

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

Edward Young

The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.

Edmund Burke

All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and humanity itself to the reigning of interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state.

Edmund Burke

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Elijah Wood

A solid base for any comedy is just honesty and truth, and it coming from a real place. As surreal as this show gets and is, ultimately, we're dealing with a character that most can't see the way that I can see it.

Elie Wiesel

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

Edward R. Murrow

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

Edward Norton

A lot of people ask, "What do you pull on in your own life from your character?" In all honesty, it's not something that really works that way for me. I tend to look at these things as an imaginative process and a challenge of imagination and empathy, to some degree. I get much more out of meeting people who have lived these lives than I do digging around in my own limited experiences.

E. V. Lucas

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

E. W. Howe

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

Ellen Wong

'Carrie Diaries' was one of the scripts that was sent my way, and it was instantly something I wanted to work on. It was very charming, and there's a lot of heart to it. It was touching and nostalgic and relatable, and it validates so many coming-of-age issues in an open and honest way. I think it speaks to real life.

Emma Bunton

Be sweet and honest always, but for God's sake don't eat my doughnuts!

Albert Camus

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

Albert Camus

Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.

Albert Camus

Integrity has no need of rules.

Amanda Hocking

Some books and authors are best sellers, but most aren't. It may be easier to self-publish than it is to traditionally publish, but in all honesty, it's harder to be a best seller self-publishing than it is with a house.

Clay Aiken

I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me.

Clarence Darrow

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use.

Daniel Defoe

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm not picky, quite honestly.

David Frum

If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.

David Bain

Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself.

David Archuleta

To be honest I always have to say no one is guiding me better than God

Donatella Versace

I'd need an incredibly talented make up artist to make me look natural!

Douglas Brinkley

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.