Honesty Quotes - Page 26

• I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.

  Steven Yeun

  Real, People, Stories

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

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• I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.

  Vance Havner

  Hypocrite, Hollywood, Watches

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• 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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• A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.

  Neil Strauss

  Artist, Advice, Important

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• I believe the best test of our integrity and honesty is when we personally enforce in our own lives that which ultimately cannot be enforced.

  David A. Bednar

  Integrity, Believe, Tests

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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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• I must really confess right here, the attraction was purely physical.

  Rod Stewart

  Attraction

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Knavery, Knaves, Worst

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Brain, Firsts

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