Honesty Quotes

2237 Honesty quotes by 1349 unique authors

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll
It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide… — Robert Burns
For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's… — Robert Burns
From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,… — Robert Burns
A man's a man for a' that. . . . . A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But… — Robert Burns
The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more. — Richard J. Needham
"Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest opinion, And I - well,… — Richard Armour
Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. . . . Many… — Michio Kaku
The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was here long before… — Lynn Margulis
Honesty is praised and left in the cold. — Juvenal
The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty. — Judith Crist
An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with… — Joseph Addison
Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last… — Joseph Addison
Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must… — John Ruskin
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping… — John Donne
Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot.… — John Donne
He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and… — Jimmy Carter
I know we can each do something, however small that act may seem to be. We can pay an honest tithe and give our fast… — Jeffrey R. Holland
An honest man nearly always thinks justly. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness… — J. Reuben Clark

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