Honesty Quotes - page 4

Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart. (Clement Greenberg)
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men. View quote
Clarence Darrow
A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery. View quote
Ashraf Dehghani
We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen). View quote
Ayelet Waldman
Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values. View quote
Ellen DeGeneres
Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all 'meaning' of the thing seen. Then only, could the real meaning of it be understood and felt. View quote
Ellsworth Kelly
Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty. (Russell Baker)
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people. View quote
Kin Hubbard
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty. View quote
Sallust
An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy. View quote
Boris Becker
Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. View quote
Akira Kurosawa
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
But in all honesty, I would suggest that people who want a modern "free" OS look around for a microkernel-based, portable OS, like maybe GNU or something like that. View quote
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists. View quote
John McCarthy (computer scientist)
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained. View quote
Laozi
I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty. View quote
Colum McCann
For what advantage is it, that the world enjoys profound peace, if thou art at war with thyself? This then is the peace we should keep. If we have it, nothing from without will be able to harm us. And to this end the public peace contributes no little: whence it is said, ‘That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life.' But if any one is disturbed when there is quiet, he is a miserable creature. Seest thou that He speaks of this peace which I call the third (inner, ed.) kind? Therefore when he has said, ‘that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life,' he does not stop there, but adds ‘in all godliness and honesty.' But we cannot live in godliness and honesty, unless that peace be established. For when curious reasonings disturb our faith, what peace is there? or when spirits of uncleanness, what peace is there? (John Chrysostom)
That became the Netflix culture: radical honesty. View quote
Marc Randolph
Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons. View quote
Robert Greene
My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons. View quote
Roger Moore
I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes. View quote
Tom Perrotta