Honesty Quotes

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Honesty in principle was one thing. In someone’s face, it was another.

I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

Written with passion, honesty, humor, and a stubborn, rebellious optimism, Dear Marcus is like nothing I've ever read. When a bullet in the back told Jerry McGill not to go on, Jerry went on-smiling.

I could tell you what my good qualities are. There's my honesty; I have a very wacky, kind of dry humor that a lot of people don't get to see.

I love the honesty of New Yorkers. When a New Yorker says 'let's do lunch,' they actually mean it. In L.A., when they say 'let's do lunch,' they're just trying to say good-bye.

Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread, and serve you French toast again. Okay, I still get stoned.

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

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

People must be changed...goodness cannot be legislated.

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.

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

Practice is invaluable... honesty is indispensable.

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

Truth may be unattainable, but honesty is not.

I've been the lowest low on the planet, I've been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways.

Nobody can boast of Honesty till they are try'd.

The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.

I will write with honesty and feeling.

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.

What is it men cannot be made to believe!

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.

Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.

Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe.

Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song.

Boy, you better pray that I bleed real soon.

In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money. That was my reality.

I am inspired when I see goodness in other people. I am inspired by hard work and honesty. And I am inspired by nature.

Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.

Honesty leads to peace.

When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

Where two factions see vividly each its own aspect, and contrive their own explanations of what they see, it is almost impossible for them to credit each other with honesty.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

In time, lies bring turmoil, where honesty brings peace.

Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.

Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child.

How is it that society professes to embrace the value of honesty when so few are found of it?

I believe honesty comes across in music because for [most] people music isn't just something to dance to.

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.