Honesty Quotes - Page 27

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

  Greyson Chance

  Girl, Important, Honest

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be a raccoon-dog, and belong to a Negro in the forest, than to belong to any party, further than to do justice to all, and to promote the interests of my country. The time will and must come, when honesty will receive its reward, and when the people of this nation will be brought to a sense of their duty, and will pause and reflect how much it cost us to redeem ourselves from the government of one man.

  Davy Crockett

  Country, Dog, Party

  "David Crockett: His Life and Adventures". Book by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, p. 294, 1875.

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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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• 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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• Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

  Marcel Proust

  Stress, Thinking, People

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.2105, Delphi Classics

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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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