Honesty Quotes - Page 28

• Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based upon fear and hope, such morality has always been a vile product, imbued partiy with self-righteousness, partly with hypocrisy.

  Emma Goldman

  Self, Justice, Hypocrisy

  Essay in the Mother Earth Journal, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. February 1916.

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• Very few women have become famous for being who they actually are, nuanced and imperfect. When honesty happens, it's usually couched in self-ridicule or self-help. Dunham doesn't apologize like that-she simply tells her story as if it might be interesting. The result is shocking and radical because it is utterly familiar. Not That Kind of Girl is hilarious, artful, and staggeringly intimate; I read it shivering with recognition.

  Miranda July

  Girl, Self, Interesting

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• Drawing is the honesty of the art.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Drawing, Sketching

  "People" Magazine, September 27, 1976.

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• Empower me to be a bold participant, rather than a timid saint in waiting, in the difficult ordinariness of now; to exercise the authority of honesty, rather than to defer to power, or deceive to get it; to influence someone for justice, rather than impress anyone for gain and, by grace, to find treasures of joy, of friendship, of peace hidden in the fields of the daily you give me to plow.

  Ted Loder

  Exercise, Giving, Justice

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• We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ignorance, Unique, Order

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• The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power, or of trade, which the doctrine of Faith cannot down-weigh.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Truth, Fate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• [Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us, if we don't find any sympathy or pleasure, for example, in a modern painting, are likely to blame our own ignorance of the history and theory of painting. But nobody pretends to like a bad comic strip. Such harshness is necessary for any real truth to surface, I think, and for art to really contribute anything to life. Though I don't know. I could be wrong.

  Chris Ware

  Art, Real, Ignorance

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• The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

  William Faulkner

  Kids, Artist, Objectivity

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• A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Men, Appreciate

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.688, Simon and Schuster

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• Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

  Walter Besant

  Truth, Acceptance, Tolerance

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• As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without avariciousness. This is very important, for no work can be rightly done without honesty and incorruptibility.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Philosophy, Self, Important

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 7,

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• Where I would like to discover facts, I find fancy. Where I would like to learn what I did, I learn only what I was thinking. Theyare loaded with opinion, moral thoughts, quick evaluations, youthful hopes and cares and sorrows. Occasionally, they manage to report something in exquisite honesty and accuracy. That is why I have refrained from burning them.

  E. B. White

  Thinking, Sorrow, Care

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• Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Chains, Being True, Everlasting

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.76

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• It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.

  Walter Raleigh

  Wise, Men, Would Be

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works”, p.297

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• Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.

  Stephen Covey

  Truth, Destruction, Credibility

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• Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Gentleman, Honest Man

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• True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Doe, Valor

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• I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Men, People, Saint

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• He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of narrow and poltroon friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity, bounty and generous honesty are the gems of noble minds, wherein (to derogate from none) the true, heroic English gentleman hath no peer.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Choices, Mind

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Repertorium. A letter to a friend. Christian morals. Certain miscellany tracts. Unpublished papers”, p.79

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• Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Men, Hopeless, Being Honest

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• As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Truth, Freedom, Liberty

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.456, Best Books on

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• If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Party, Army, Thinking

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• There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  Teamwork, Business, Men

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• To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wisdom, Truth, Lying

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• Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it's imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.

  Benjamin Graham

  Hands, Investing, Financial

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.65, Prabhat Prakashan

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