Honesty Quotes - Page 18

• Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

  Criss Jami

  Confusion, Painful, Hardcore

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.91, Criss Jami

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• Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Temperature, Absurd, Absolutes

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• My head'll explode if I continue with this escapism.

  Jess C Scott

  Relationship, Sex, Body

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan”, p.48, jessINK

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• It's always a fun collaboration with my brother. I'm very fortunate to be able to work with him. There's an honesty to collaboration. There's a lack of a gender or ego in our conversations. And so you can really throw anything around.

  Christopher Nolan

  Brother, Fun, Ego

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• I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.

  Nathan Fillion

  People, Laughing, Dumb

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 9, 2009.

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• The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.

  Ambrose

  Clothes, Simplicity, Body

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Play, Common Sense

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.23, Modern Library

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• Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don't think so though I'm not sure if I'd like to be and argh I don't think there's anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.

  Jess C Scott

  Relationship, Bisexual, Night

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan”, p.48, jessINK

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• What a pleasure it is to be in business with BASE. I'm impressed with the honesty, integrity and efficiency with which they operate. The next show I do and represent, I will be doing with them all over again.

  Bernie Brillstein

  Integrity, Next, Pleasure

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• Intuition is the voice of the spirit within you.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Voice, Intuition, Spirit

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• If you cheat, if your weights and measures are inaccurate, if your financial dealings are shoddy, if you take things that do not belong to you, you won't be able to hide it forever. People will find out. Then your reputation and your business will suffer, because people don't want to deal with someone who can't be trusted.

  Wayne D. Dosick

  People, Forever, Suffering

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• One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  One Day, Ordinary, Strange Times

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• At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say right on motherfuckers!

  Madonna Ciccone

  Political, Politics, Correctness

  "Judges switched on as Turner Prize goes to the Creed of nothingness" by Fiachra Gibbons, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2001.

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• Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

  Billy Joel

  Art, Truth, Form

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• In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.

  George Burns

  Business, Keys, Fake

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• 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

  Truth, Heart, Artist

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.146, Beacon Press

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• Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty choose what is right.

  Arthur Trudeau

  Character, Decision, Finals

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• We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Truth, Men, Voting

  Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”

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• O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Sweet, Freedom

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• Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Brain, Firsts

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• The love of science, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of science, in the best of the Aryan races do seem to correspond in a remarkable way to the love of conduct, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of conduct, in the best of the Semitic.

  Matthew Arnold

  Science, Men, Race

  Matthew Arnold, Thomas Burnett Smart (1903). “The Works of Matthew Arnold”

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• No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises alike; the special ability of the artist, the man of letters, the man of science, and the man of business; the rigid determination to wrong no man, and to stand for righteousness-all these are necessary in a great nation.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Determination, Integrity, Science

  Theodore Roosevelt (1897). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: American ideals. Administration-Civil service”

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• Vaudeville could not vouch for the honesty, the integrity, or the mentality of the individuals who collectively made up the horde the medium embraced. All the human race demands of its members is that they be born. That is all vaudeville demanded. You just had to be born. You could be ignorant and be a star. You could be a moron and be wealthy. The elements that went to make up vaudeville were combed from the jungles, the four corners of the world, the intelligentsia and the subnormal.

  Fred Allen

  Stars, Integrity, Race

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• As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are.

  Harold B. Lee

  Church, Gullible, Members

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• It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less your chance is. There can be no danger in honest thought, and if the world ever advances beyond what it is to-day, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Real, Men, Brain

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.759, Library of Alexandria

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