--- title: "3 Understanding Honor Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 3 Understanding Honor quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Understanding Honor sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ea/adrienne-rich-803_adrienne-rich_truthfulness-honor-is-not-something-whic_757156.png" --- > [“Truthfulness, honor, is not something which springs ablaze of itself; it has to be created between people. This is true in political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/truthfulness-honor-is-not-something-which-springs-ablaze-of-itself-it/) [Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ea/adrienne-rich-803_adrienne-rich_truthfulness-honor-is-not-something-whic_757156.png) > [“Noble leaders choose: wisdom over wealth, knowledge over fame, understanding over honor, virtue over titles, and people over power.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matshona-dhliwayo/noble-leaders-choose-wisdom-over-wealth-knowledge-over-fame/) [Matshona Dhliwayo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matshona-dhliwayo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55b/matshona-dhliwayo-52_character_noble-leaders-choose-wisdom-over-wealth_1756433.jpg) > [“God's earth is good. It is only we who are bad. How little justice and humility we have, how poor our understanding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/god-s-earth-is-good-it-is-only-we-who-are-bad-how-little-justice-and/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f5/anton-chekhov-298_honor_god-s-earth-is-good-it-is-only-we-who-ar_2733773.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/understanding-honor/#itemlist", "name": "Understanding Honor Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Truthfulness, honor, is not something which springs ablaze of itself; it has to be created between people. This is true in political situations. The quality and depth of the politics evolving from a group depends in large part on their understanding of honor. Much of what is narrowly termed \"politics\" seems to rest on a longing for certainty even at the cost of honesty, for an analysis which, once given, need not be re-examined…It isn't that to have an honorable relationship with you, I have to understand everything, or tell you everything at once, or that I can know, beforehand, everything I need to tell you. It means that most of the time I am eager, longing for the possibility of telling you. That these possibilities may seem frightening, but not destructive to me. That I feel strong enough to hear your tentative and groping words. 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It is only we who are bad. How little justice and humility we have, how poor our understanding of patriotism! ... Instead of knowledge, there is insolence and boundless conceit, instead of labor, idleness and caddishness; there is no justice, the understanding of honor does not go beyond \"the honor of the uniform,\" a uniform usually adorning our prisoners' dock. We must work, the hell with everything else. 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