Honesty Quotes · Page 48

Truth is heavy and difficult but pleasant , and falsehood is light and easy but painful and dangerous

— Anonymous

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.

— Pema Chodron

“I mean, you want the truth as you wanna hear it? I can't do that. You couldn't afford me.”

— Keith Moon

“Peace is letting it be. Letting life flow, letting emotions flow through you.”

— Kamal Ravikant

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

— Mark Twain

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

— Tryon Edwards

“admires her honesty, which turns white lies into red roadkill.”

— M.R. Carey

A lie can travel half-way around the world, while the truth is still putting on it's shoes.

— Mark Twain

“Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I unlearned the model of being an editor like Ezra Pound with T.S. Eliot, the unconscious belief that America was the center…

— Lynne Tillman

I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look…

— Eric Church

If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Orozco's despair was not just in finding himself poor, but in discovering that effort, honest intentions, and gentlemanly status had nothing to…

— Timothy Brook

“We never actually have serious conversations about anything for more than 20 seconds. So there’s a beautiful superficiality to our relationship which…

— Kamila Shamsie

A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can…

— Henry David Thoreau

The truth can be hard to swallow, but it's always best to embrace it, no matter how hard you want to keep…

— Anonymous

“Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion in continual pretense and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What would happen if people practiced openness and honesty? If people talked about their real challenges without shame or fear of rejection?…

— Deborah Reber

We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think…

— Mark Twain

The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's…

— Margaret Thatcher

The root of honesty is an honest intention, the distinct and deliberate purpose to be true, to handle facts as they are,…

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“Authenticity unlocks the innocence of life. It turns what we think we should be into what we are. It can turn a…

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

“...[Y]ou know very well the truth of what I [say]... I have incurred a great deal of bitter hostility; and this is…

— Socrates

Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world…

— Victoria Laurie

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

— William Shakespeare

Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.

— Imre Lakatos

“I wish I would've learned earlier on to be myself and express what mattered to me and how I actually felt about…

— Melanie Shankle

If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to…

— Donald Miller

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Trust based on honesty is the foundation of strong and bonding relationships. Lead an honest and happy life.

— Mark Twain

There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

— Samuel Butler

“When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Some people may like you, and some people may not, keep living your life dreams, you will succeed!”

— Nitra Gipson

Slander cannot destroy an honest man - when the flood recedes the rock is there

— Chinese Proverbs

“A philosopher and honest journalist? Does he plan to die of hunger?”

— Anonymous

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.

— Sean Covey

Good women is found in every corner of the world , unfortunately a world is round.

— KayGee

In all honesty, I was hoping to use football as a path to play basketball in college.

— Ben Wallace

“Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life … all areas of life.”

— Zig Ziglar

The Two Most Important Words In The World Are Honesty And Sincerity, If You Can Fake These You've Got It Made.

— Groucho Marx