Honesty Quotes

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!

I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.

A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'

Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.

Because everybody lies. It's part of living in society. Don't get me wrong-I think it's necessary. The last thing anyone wants is to live in a society where total honesty prevails. Can you imagine the conversations? You're short and fat, one person might say, and the other might answer, I know. But you smell bad. It just wouldn't work. So people lie by omission all the time. People will tell you most of the story...and I've learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they're afraid." -Jo

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

Truth hath a quiet breast.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

Because I cannot flatter and look fair,Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog,Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,I must be held a rancorous enemy.

"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.

....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is -"Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

What a fool honesty is.

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

Trust is congruence between what you say and what you do.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

All I want is the truth, just give me some truth

An honest man is always a child.

I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

The woman who says, 'My kids are all speaking to one another and they love us' is a psychopathic liar.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.

Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.

The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.

Children and fools always speak the truth

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

Tart, cathartic virtue.

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.

I can admit and say that I have feelings.

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.

The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year.

The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.