Honest Quotes - Page 17

• If you don't say the honest thing, it never becomes true.

  John Green

  Ifs

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.159, Penguin

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• Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Government, Leader, Soul

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.49, Oxford University Press

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• If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.

  Paul Dirac

  Reality, Religion, Atheism

  Remarks during the Fifth Solvay International Conference on October 1927. "Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations". Book by Werner Heisenberg, pp. 85-86, 1971.

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• I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.

  Truman Capote

  Heart, May, Tongue

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.82, Vintage

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• I am looking for an honest man.

  Diogenes

  Honesty, Men, Honest Man

  Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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• Those true eyes, Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise, The sweet soul shining through them.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Sweet, Eye, Love At First Sight

  "Lucile". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1860.

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• If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Country, Money, Differences

  "Student Loans: The Government Is Now Officially in the Banking Business" by Ellen Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2010.

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• The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with no choice but to protect themselves as best they can, they now try to take our guns away. In fact they blame us and our guns for crime. This is so wrong that it cannot be an honest mistake.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Mistake, Gun, Class

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• There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

  H. L. Mencken

  Drinking, Two, Politician

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• You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Political, Liberty, Libertarian

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• A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

  Harry S. Truman

  Integrity, Needs, Code Of Ethics

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• To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

  Richard Dawkins

  Judging, Religion, Atheism

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice - is often the means of their regeneration.

  John Stuart Mill

  War, Mean, Patriotic

  John Stuart Mill (1867). “Thoughts on parliamentary reform. Recent writers on reform. Bain's psychology. A few words on non-intervention. The contest in America. Austin on jurisprudence. Plato”, p.204

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• For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will be praised by everybody because the vulgar are always taken by what a thing seems to be and by what comes of it; and in the world there are only the vulgar, for the few find a place there only when the many have no ground to rest on.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Taken, Mean, Credit

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.73, FastPencil Inc

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• Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

  Jules Verne

  Hands, Would Be, Faces

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• Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.

  Lester Maddox

  Honesty, Business, Should

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• Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this

  Don DeLillo

  Honesty, Thinking, Terrible

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.326, Pan Macmillan

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• There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.

  John Stott

  Suicide, Jesus, Strong

  John Stott, Rick Warren (2012). “Basic Christianity, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition”, p.14, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Truth, Honesty, Grief

  Edna St. Vincent Millay, “The Goose-Girl”

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• Sebastian just smiled. “I could hear your heart beating,” he said softly. “When you were watching me with Valentine. Did it bother you?” “That you seem to be dating my dad?” Jace shrugged. "You’re a little young for him, to be honest.” “What?” For the first time since Jace had met him, Sebastian seemed flabbergasted.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dad, Valentine, Heart

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Glass”, p.436, Simon and Schuster

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• How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.

  Henry Wotton

  Truth, Honesty, Skills

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• And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Today, Encounters, Praying

  Jimmy Santiago Baca (2004). “Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande”, p.8, New Directions Publishing

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• There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Believe, Men

  "Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches".

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• Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . . There will always be the false snobbery which tries to place one vocation above another. You will become a member of the aristocracy in the American sense only if your accomplishments and integrity earn this appellation.

  James Bryant Conant

  Honesty, Integrity, Accomplishment

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• I was born to poor because of honest parents.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Parent, Poor, Born

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “Negligible Tales”, p.23, Ambrose Bierce

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