Being honest Quote by Herman Melville Download Open image “A man can be honest in any sort of skin.” — Herman Melville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being honest Honest Men Skins Truth
And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal his true… — Robert M. Hensel Copy Share Image
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in… — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to write it; for it is a thing most sorrowful, nay shocking, to expose the fall of valour in the soul. Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be;… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go down stairs five miles or more; and if he don't attain the bottom, why all the lead in Galena can't fashion the plummet that will. I'm not talking of Mr Emerson now -but of the whole… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the sea. Wrapped, for that interval, in darkness myself, I but the better saw the redness, the madness, the ghastliness of others. The continual sight of the fiend shapes before me, capering half in smoke and half… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way? Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color, and at the… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this… — Herman Melville Copy Share
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and then, with weary patience, cleansed ourselves from its defilements, and learned to live here in clean tabernacles of the soul; hardly is this done, when-There she blows!-the ghost is spouted up, and away we sail to… — Herman Melville Copy Share
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can't do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share
I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity – and personal integrity, at that – is… — Verghese Kurien Copy Share Image
I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share
Let's be honest, if the Democrats didn't support ignoring our nation's immigration laws, there is no way they could win the presidency or a… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I think what saved me is me being honest. I think I somewhow had the courage to do something and say something that I… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself. — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
The cultural integration of psychedelics won't happen overnight, and the question of young people is perhaps the most difficult involved. The first step is… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
I'm a person of change and I must be honest to my artistry and my creativity. That's part of the word 'jazz'... it's an… — Maynard Ferguson Copy Share Image
I'm going to be honest, I would love for Flava Flav to be president. It would bring a lot of excitement to the country. — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
The buildings that were in question, they said in the same report, which was - actually, it wasn't even a bad story, to be… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I guess it has to be healthy, you have to be honest with yourself and I think that's when ego is okay. — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
The opening for solid waste is very small [in the space ship]. It's not toilet-bowl size. And aim is critical. To be honest with… — Mike Mullane Copy Share Image
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