Honesty Quotes - Page 5

• To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Believe, Belief

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

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• I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Children, Truth

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• Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  People, Virtue, Great Gatsby Important

  The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)

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• The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Character, World, Definitions

  Theodore Dreiser (2015). “The Financier: Top American Novels”, p.78, 谷月社

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• The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

  John Lyly

  Inspirational, Life Is, Length

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• Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

  Tim Minchin

  Views, Denial, Belief

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• To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Men, World

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [179]

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• If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational, Lying, People

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3151, Delphi Classics

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• Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

  B. C. Forbes

  Character, Men, Expression

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• It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.

  Pope Francis

  Integrity, Commitment, Leader

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• It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Credit, Care

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.377

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• I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny.

  Christopher Phillips

  Quality, Sincerity, Conviction

  Christopher Phillips (2002). “Socrates Café: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy”, p.19, James Clarke & Co.

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• Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.

  Charles H. Brower

  Today, Enough, Policy

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• Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.

  John Ruskin

  Policy

  'Time and Tide' (1867) letter 8

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• Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

  Leslie Stephen

  Men, Thinking, Public Service

  Leslie Stephen (1893). “An Agnostic's Apology”

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• Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Character, Firsts

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• Honesty will never break you.

  Kate Hudson

  Break

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• Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable

  Leo Burnett

  Issues, Moral, Advertising

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• I'm frank, brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank, I look frank.

  Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet

  Looks, Frank

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Truth, Grief, Tired

  Edna St. Vincent Millay, “The Goose-Girl”

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• Love and honesty don't mix.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Love And Honesty

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

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• Children and fools speak true.

  John Lyly

  Children, Fool, Speak

  John Lyly, David Bevington (1997). “Endymion”, p.152, Manchester University Press

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• An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.

  Emily Post

  Truth, Coffee, People

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• On his mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: 'I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.' To the executioner: 'Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thyne office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thyne honesty.'

  Thomas More

  Life, Success, Men

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• Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

  Nelson Mandela

  Integrity, Humility, People

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