Honesty Quotes - Page 19

• The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. He needs no one to give him an 'Art Education'; he is already qualified. He needs but to see pictures with his active mind, look into them for the things that belong to him, and he will find soon enough in himself an art connoisseur and an art lover of the first order.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Integrity, Men

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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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• 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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• 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 think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Thinking, Years, Twenties

  "Oral history interview with Robert Rauschenberg". Interview with Dorothy Seckler, www.aaa.si.edu. December 21, 1965.

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• Nothing weighs more heavily on age than time. Nothing has more meaning … Now time becomes, with a kind of ruthless honesty, what it has always been: life's most precious commodity. The only difference is that, finally, we know it.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Time, Differences, Age

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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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• Truth is the glue that holds government together.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Truth, Patriotic, Government

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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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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• 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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• By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.

  William Osler

  Integrity, Character, Fighting

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.369, Duke University Press

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• I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!

  Will Rogers

  Native American, Blood, White

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• The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Generosity, Evil, Stronger

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. In all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Believe, Home, Government

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Brain, Firsts

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• Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Successful, Men

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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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• Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Alternatives, Virtue

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• No one is perfect but without honesty you've got nothing.

  Rose Namajunas

  Mma, Perfect

  Twitter post from Nov 17, 2014

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• 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Character, Thinking, Heretic

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin .. Comprising a Series of Letters on Miscellaneous, Litarary, and Political Subjects: Written Between the Years 1753 and 1790; Illustrating the Memoirs of His Public and Private Life, and Developing the Secret History of His Political Transactions and Negociations. Now First Published from the Originals”, p.250

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• Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have endangered our nation and our future. His argument for the morality, the honesty, and the humility of atheism is galvanizing. It is a relief that someone has spoken so frankly, with such passion yet such rationality. Now when the subject arises, as it inevitably does, I can simply say: Read Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation.

  Janna Levin

  Christian, Religious, Humility

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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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• It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

  Todd Burpo

  Ignorance, Reality, Opposites

  Todd Burpo (2014). “Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, p.75, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in the lunatic. He is the one least concerned of what I think of him, the mark of an honest man. I can always depend on him to be completely honest in what he thinks and feels, about anything, no matter the consequences laid before him, however with no course of rationale, I cannot necessarily take his word for even the well-being of him in his own reality.

  Criss Jami

  Reality, Men, Thinking

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.33, Criss Jami

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