Honesty Quotes

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

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

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.

... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it. For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away some control.

Beautiful faces are those that wear — It matters little if dark or fair — Whole-souled honesty printed there.

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light of intellectual honesty.

Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.

Whatever I did, I did with love and I did with honesty.

True honesty is the willingness to stand completely exposed, allowing the world to do what it may, and say what it will, only so you may know who you are - beyond all ideas.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

Trust and honesty is an investment you put in people.

That absolute pure honesty of the horse, man that's just the greatest thing there is

It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Don't send me no letter, cause I can't read.

There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

Creativity is the depth of the honesty you express towards your possibility.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

Honesty is better than any policy.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.

When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.

You should not honor men more than truth.

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.