Honesty Quotes - page 3

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up. (Shania Twain)
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. View quote
George Carlin
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? View quote
Cicero
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same. View quote
Viktor Frankl
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward. Truth is not a reward. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
What is more arrogant than honesty? View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Honesty is praised and starves. View quote
Juvenal
Honesty is such a lonely word Everyone is so untrue Honest is hardly ever heard And mostly what I need from you. View quote
Billy Joel
I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it back to the people where it goes into their lives and nourishes them and changes their direction and makes light bulbs go off in their head and makes them feel. And it isn't vague, it strikes against the very nerves of their life and in order to do that you have to strike against the very nerves of your own. (Joni Mitchell)
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. View quote
Adrienne Rich
I like honesty and fair play. View quote
Marcus Garvey
I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life. View quote
Davy Crockett
It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it will be barren of results. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty and intelligence. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
One good Man may take another's Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty, but what is built upon Necessity; for unhappy is the People, and their Constitution will be ever precarious, whose Welfare must depend upon the Virtues and Consciences of Ministers and Politicians. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness, honesty and sincerity, and are intent only on passing ourselves off for what we are not. We then assume, like those three sophists [Fichte, Schelling and Hegel], first a false pathos, then an affected and lofty earnestness, then an air of infinite superiority, in order to impose where we despair of ever being able to convince. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world... would do this, it would change the earth. View quote
William Faulkner
The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory, you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty. View quote
Richard Feynman
How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of the world. In effect, we say, "I don't dare show you what I am because I don't trust you for a minute but please love me anyway because I so need you to. And, of course, if you don't love me anyway, you're a dirty dog, just as I suspected, so I was right in the first place." Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened. View quote
Duke Ellington
we know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty. View quote
Thucydides