Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.

Daniel Webster

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

David Levithan

So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me.

David Blunkett

I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.

David Bowie

Feeling so gay, feeling so gay.

Deepak Chopra

Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless.

Anderson Cooper

As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.

Anna Quindlen

Predictions that unit cohesion could not survive honesty about sexual orientation were simply wrong. What does threaten morale arethe prolonged investigations, the questioning of friends and co-workers, the searches of barracks for magazines and letters, the witch hunts.

Cillian Murphy

You do your due diligence, you read as much as you can, and then, ultimately, I find that you discard that and you concentrate on the characters [of 'Antropoid'] and you can draw on [the research] if you wish, but I think ultimately it's about bringing as much truth and honesty to the portrayal as possible.

Andy Rooney

Person-to-person, most people are honest.

Edward Kennedy

Today is an ominous day for the country, signifying a new low since Watergate in terms of openness and honesty in our government,

A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.

Maria Sharapova

I think at some point I may be able to dominate, but honesty, I don't think I'm physically there yet and I don't want to go out there and say I am, when I'm really not.

Paul Simon

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Robert Morgan

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

William Shakespeare

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

Truth might be unattainable, but honesty is not.

C. S. Lewis

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

Carl Sagan

The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations - in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. . . . Science thrives on, indeed requires, the free exchange of ideas; its values are antithetical to secrecy. Science holds to no special vantage points or privileged positions. Both science and democracy encourage unconventional opinions and vigorous debate. Both demand adequate reason, coherent argument, rigorous standards of evidence and honesty.

Bette Davis

They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

Black Elk

Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.

Betty Dodson

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.

Benny Carter

In all honesty, I think I just played what I felt was right for me. And I think I would have done the same thing, even if I'd been born later, when Charlie Parker was influencing everybody. The truth is, I never gave it much thought. I just played what I had to play.

Bob Seger

I used her and she used me, but neither one cared, we were getting our share.

Bob Seger

And just about the time I feel like screaming and finding me a wall to punch right through, I look up and I just can't help smiling, it's you.

Bob Feller

Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.

Charlie Sheen

I think the honesty not only shines through in my work, but also my personal life. And I get in trouble for being honest. I'm extremely old-fashioned. I'm a nobleman. I'm chivalrous.

William Shakespeare

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

Baz Luhrmann

I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

William Shakespeare

Corruption wins not more than honesty.

William Shakespeare

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

William Shakespeare

Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest

William Shakespeare

A very honest woman but something given to lie