Quotes about honesty
honesty comedian second-best
By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. George Carlin
honesty philosophy collapse
If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.
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There's times I'd rather kill you than listen to your honesty. Garth Brooks
honesty mind prove
I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!
honesty war integrity
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. Frederick Douglass
honesty believe humility
When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility. Frank Sinatra
honesty pain needs
Honesty needs no pains to set itself off. George Edward Moore
honesty spring heart
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood. Federica Montseny
honesty causes letters
Don't send me no letter, cause I can't read. Fats Domino
honesty personal-opinions odds
My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another. Ezra Miller
honesty lying character
Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral? Most individuals do not intend to be dishonest, dishonorable, or immoral. They seem to allow their characters to erode by a series of rationalizations, lies, and compromises. Then when grave temptation presents itself, they haven't the strength of character to do what they know to be right. Ezra Taft Benson
honesty wealth ill
Ill-gotten wealth is never stable. Euripides
honesty lying men
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies. Francis Bacon
honesty thinking wind
I have a thing about honesty; I think it's crucial to a relationship. Otherwise, one person holds all the power. It's healthy to be straightforward, and it turns out you can wind up weathering a lot. Knowing that everything is on the table - what you see is what you get - lends a sense of safety. Jennifer Connelly
honesty humble medicine
Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals. Gretel Ehrlich
honesty party expediency
Party honesty is party expediency. Grover Cleveland
honesty book blessed
Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be blessed with a proud name, one that parents will employ for generations to instill the values of honesty, independence, and above all, courage in their sons.
honesty two fake
The Two Most Important Words In The World Are Honesty And Sincerity, If You Can Fake These You've Got It Made. Groucho Marx
honesty hunger-and-thirst politics
the last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs ... Harriet Martineau
honesty powerful integrity
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. Harper Lee
honesty lying people
Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy. Ian Mckellen
honesty stupid moving
Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble. Hugh Prather
honesty lying data
The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values. Howard Zinn
honesty people littles
Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. Hosea Ballou
honesty war enemy
You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that! Friedrich Nietzsche
honesty views age
The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.
honesty pride illusion
One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.
honesty frankness
We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
honesty business keys
In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy. George Burns
honesty telling-the-truth realms
Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm. George Bernard Shaw
honesty temperature absurd
Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.
honesty police rebellious
Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
honesty government choices
You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.