Honesty Quotes - Page 33

• Predictions that unit cohesion could not survive honesty about sexual orientation were simply wrong. What does threaten morale arethe prolonged investigations, the questioning of friends and co-workers, the searches of barracks for magazines and letters, the witch hunts.

  Anna Quindlen

  Doe, Magazines, Letters

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• Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.

  John Calvin

  Wisdom, Art, Truth

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• It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

  George Washington

  Leadership, Individual, States

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1847). “pt. III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789”, p.146

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• If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying what they would like the results to have been—and finally—an important thing—the intelligence to interpret the results.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Intelligence, Important, Progress

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.130, Princeton University Press

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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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• Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Gentleman, Honest Man

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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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• What we often take to be family values--the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility--are in fact social, religious, or cultural values. To be sure, these values are transmitted by parents to their children and are familial in that sense. They do not, however, originate within the family. It is the value of close relationships with other family members, and the importance of these bonds relative to other needs.

  David Elkind

  Religious, Children, Responsibility

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• Honesty towards yourself. Looking into your mirror, any time all the time will guide.

  Jacob Gelt Dekker

  Mirrors, Guides

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• Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all.

  Emma Goldman

  Mother, Liberty, Weapons

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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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• 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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• 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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• An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Knaves, Able

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.389, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• 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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• What's the news?
  None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest,
  Then is doomsday near.

  William Shakespeare

  News, World, Lord

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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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• 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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• 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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• Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

  John Ciardi

  Temptation, Ability

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• Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.

  Charlie Munger

  Hard Work, Investing, Ifs

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• For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.

  William Shakespeare

  Sugar, Honey, Sauce

  1599-1600 Touchstone toAudrey. AsYou Like It, act 3, sc.3, l.26-7.

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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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• Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be blessed with a proud name, one that parents will employ for generations to instill the values of honesty, independence, and above all, courage in their sons.

  Grover Cleveland

  Book, Blessed, Mean

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