Best Honest Thoughts
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To me spirituality needs an honest individuality. It does not allow any kind of dependence. It creates a freedom for itself, whatever the cost. It…
— Rajneesh
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The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.
— Tom Hanks
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Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
— Jean Rostand
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I don't have a strict diet. It's all about cramming in as many calories into my system as I possibly can. To be honest with…
— Michael Phelps
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Every man should make up his mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.
— E. H. Harriman
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People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
— Richard J. Needham
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All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.
— Mark Twain
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I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.
— Mark Twain
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Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.
— Mark Twain
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No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.
— Mark Twain
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The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears…
— Mark Twain
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....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.
— Mark Twain
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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.
— Mark Twain
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Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
— Walter Raleigh
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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
— Richard Whately
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
— Ovid
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No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
— Michel de Montaigne
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When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
— Pamela Ribon
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'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true…
— David Hume
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I can always get along with an honest friend.
— Harry S. Truman
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Every song that has been a hit for me has been honest and truthful. I have to believe that same formula will work on this…
— Reba McEntire
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An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind.
— John Mellencamp
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Our great error is that we suppose mankind to be more honest than they are.
— Alexander Hamilton
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