Honesty Quotes

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest...

It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

Presidents lie all the time. Really great presidents lie. Abraham Lincoln managed to end slavery in ...

Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices so...

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late. I...

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish every...

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are ...

In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pis...

Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we s...

I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

Under fun’s new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illumin...

JAY: Why is a story more upfront than life?LENORE: It just seems more honest, somehow.JAY: Honest me...

What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark....

My confessions did nothing to alter this situation, but for the first time in my life I felt that so...

You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.

Stormy Llewellyn, a woman of unconventional views, believes instead that our passage through this wo...

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true.

Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosag...

I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance...

I am the false character that follows the name around.

You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not t...

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simpli...

The world was in terrible shape, and I'm glad we stood up and said what we believed; but a lot of th...

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the t...

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental ...

[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer sh...

[On marriage and permanent attach

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one ...

- "It says in the brochure," said Arthur, pulling it out of his pocket and looking at it again, "tha...

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere." Liking her better, he smiled and ...

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but...

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a s...

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, nat...

If all the world spoke, acted, or kept silence with intent to deceive, --if dearest interests were a...

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it,

Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies...

The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to t...

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would...

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. O...

I’m a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same ...

Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What y...

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly...

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I d...

One must not cheat anybody not even the world of one's triumph.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to...

True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitu...

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.

If there is no struggle there is no progress.

Don't ever, ever try to lie to the internet - because they will catch you.

HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is...

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellect...

You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them ...

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

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

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviab...

They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passi...

There is one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says 'yes' you know he is crooked.

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of co...

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true i...

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and great...

If a man says to you, "This is the truth," and you believe him, and you discover what he says is not...

As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most import...

Honesty is to truth as prow is to stern. Honesty appears first and truth appears last. The interval ...

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.

All the same, writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words ...

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!

Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing the pleasant and reasona...

Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing to pleasant and reasonab...

How do you have to live, I wondered, to be in harmony with what you honestly think?

Today the grass listens when I speak of love. It seems to me that this word isn't honest even with i...

In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tai...

Months later, when I rarely saw the Angels, I still had the legacy of the big machine -- four hundre...

So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or...

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testi...

...[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abid...

It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I hav...

There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable cor...

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You...

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baude...

It has always been my contention that an individual who can be relied upon to be himself and to be h...

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of wh...

And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We kee...

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert...

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I care...

That's the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that s...