Honesty Quotes - Page 20

• I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

  Charles de Lint

  Lying, Fiction, Stories

  "Memory and Dream". Book by Charles de Lint, 1994.

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• Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, May, Losing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.37, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Integrity, Rewards, Clarity

  "This Light in Oneself". Jiddu Krishnamurti's 4th public talk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, jkrishnamurti.org. May 19, 1968.

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• America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Confused, War, Media

  "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, March 23, 2007.

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• We can use doubt to self analyze. A measure of doubt can help us to attain self-honesty. But, like too much water, too much doubt will also destroy us.

  Ruben Papian

  Self, Water, Doubt

  Ruben Papian (2013). “How to Wish”, p.7

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• Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

  Bill Vaughan

  Mistake, Responsibility, People

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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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• In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

  Vince Gilligan

  Writing, Television, Made

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Humility, Thinking, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I like the girls who are honest, because honesty is important.

  Greyson Chance

  Girl, Important, Honest

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• 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

  Philosophy, Farewell, Air

  "Parerga and Paralipomena" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. 1, (p. 22), 1974.

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• We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Government, Needs, Sincerity

  "Kevorkian Plans Congressional Run" by Ken Thomas, www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2008.

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• I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.

  Dolly Parton

  Children, Kids, Politics

  FaceBook post by Dolly Parton from Feb 08, 2012

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• I'm not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there's a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time.

  Dolly Parton

  Truth, Real, Love Is

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Thucydides

  Party, Names, Community

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose names are recorded in biography. Even the humblest person, who sets before his fellows an example of industry, sobriety, and upright honesty of purpose in life, has a present as well as a future influence upon the well-being of his country; for his life and character pass unconsciously into the lives of others, and propagate good example for all time to come.

  Samuel Smiles

  Country, Character, Men

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.19

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• I wish that we lived in a time and a generation where people would stop viewing my honesty as overly emotional. People always act like I spend my life crying in a dark room. I don't, I'm good. I'm a man.

  Drake

  Dark, Men, Emotional

  "On the Cover: Drake". Interview with Claire Hoffman, www.gq.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.

  Anne Lamott

  Dream, Interesting, Want

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.

  Philip Pearlstein

  Space, Editing, Painting

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• Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through layers of manipulation, abstraction, and intervention. But now, it is very much on the surface. I like this honesty about its dishonesty. Every photograph has many truths and none. Photographs are ambiguous, no matter how seemingly scientific they appear to be. They are always subject to an uncontrollable context. This is a tired statement, but worth repeating.

  Taryn Simon

  Photography, Tired, Reality

  Interview with Geoffrey Batchen, Nell McClister, www.museomagazine.com.

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• All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, People, Justice

  Interview with Robert Thurman, www.motherjones.com. November 1997.

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• Where two factions see vividly each its own aspect, and contrive their own explanations of what they see, it is almost impossible for them to credit each other with honesty.

  Walter Lippmann

  Two, Credit, Impossible

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.

  George Eliot

  Attitude, Spring, Lying

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.112

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• When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my own.

  Bret Harte

  Mind, Speak, Affair

  Bret Harte (2016). “The Argonauts of North Liberty”, p.56, The Floating Press

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• 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 .

  Richard P. Feynman

  Integrity, Real, Trying

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.127, Princeton University Press

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