Honesty Quotes

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

There are so many fools in the world for the devil to operate upon, it gives him the advantage oftentimes.

In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9.

The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty.

Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends

In all honesty, we never tried to get the number-one song anywhere anyway.

Honesty has always worked for me.

Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.

The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

We wanted to make something that sounded perfect because of the quality of the emotion...the honesty.

A commentary on the times is that the word 'honesty' is now preceded by 'old-fashioned.'

The thing about death is that it's honest. I go to things that have a core of honesty about them and there's nothing more honest than death.

I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will.

What could there be more purely bright in truth's day star?

He said, "Hi, gorgeous," which I think is nice. I admire honesty.

My main trick is to work with amazing people. It's a long and twisty journey and you need people that really are amazing and have this rare gift of honesty and courage and really open up.

It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.

Baby, baby, don't get hooked on me, cause I'll just use you then I'll set you free.

At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say right on motherfuckers!

Looking at my life, it's very clear to me, I lived so selfishly.

Until I learned to love myself, I was never ever lovin' nobody else.

To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.

Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.

The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.

Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

There is no more powerful weapon for change than honesty.

Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you’re already learning how to make it less harmful.

My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.

One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.

Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.

When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.