Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martha Beck

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

Michel de Montaigne

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

Michel de Montaigne

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Michel de Montaigne

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

Michel de Montaigne

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

Michel de Montaigne

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

Mark Twain

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Marianne Williamson

The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

Marianne Williamson

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

Mario Andretti

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

Mario Cuomo

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

Frank Ocean

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Francois Rabelais

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

George Carman

Above any commercial success one might enjoy, one's reputation for honesty is the most important thing

Christina Aguilera

I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

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.

Fran Lebowitz

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

George Washington

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

George Washington

Honesty is always the best policy.

George Washington

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

George Washington

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

George Orwell

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!

John Ruskin

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.

John Quincy Adams

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Noel Coward

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Nils-Axel Morner

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Honesty's the best policy.

Miguel de Cervantes

Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.

Thomas Jefferson

With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of evey other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.