Decency Quote by Arthur Koestler Download Open image “Honor is decency without vanity.” — Arthur Koestler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decency Honor Pride Vanity
Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be. — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“[What is honor]—I suspect that if, after reading this book, you were to go and ask the question of your friends and acquaintances, you… — Jack Whyte Copy Share Image
Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Honor sometimes means doing something very unwise. Behaving like an idiot is better than dishonor. To this day I blush for having chosen sensible… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened… — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Revolutionary theory had frozen to a dogmatic cult, with a simplified, easily graspable catechism, and with No. 1 as the high priest celebrating the Mass.” — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Listen, young people, I understand narcissism - clearly. But at least I have the decency to hate myself. And that's what's missing from the… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I am not a member of the chamber of commerce for show business, believe me, but there are some really good people in the… — Kurt Fuller Copy Share Image
Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'. — Don King Copy Share Image
If I see that something is wrong, I don't care who says it. Whether it's a Republican or Democrat, the left or the right.… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless… — Michael D. Higgins Copy Share Image
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
