Honest people Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It is almost laughable to ponder upon where it all started and nearly grim and shameful when we realise as humans that we are…

— Santosh Kalwar

“And then there's another snag you keep coming across: such decent and sensible people keep appearing in life, such wise men, and such lovers…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The ears of our generation have been made so delicate by the senseless multitude of flatterers that, as soon as we perceive that anything…

— Martin Luther

“To meet the great tasks that are before us, we require all our intelligence, and we must be sound and wholesome in mind. We…

— Elwood Hendricks

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Now is the time that we make conscientious efforts towards becoming a real wise species, free from all sorts of bigotry, mysticism and sectarianism.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“however, he brought to mind instances of cultured fellows that promised so brilliantly nipped in the bud of premature decay and nobody to blame…

— James Joyce

“There are people who carry decency and optimism around with them, who seem to cleanse every atmosphere they settle in, and you can't tell…

— Alice Munro

“constantly keeping in mind the truth that external things being beyond our power and subject to fortune are unimportant, to laugh rather than weep…

— Francis Caldwell Holland

“To prevent becoming overwhelmed by the world around us, we must, as the ancients practiced, learn how to limit our passions and their control…

— Ryan Holiday

“We are now surrounded, outmanned, and outgunned by a generation of phonies, grasping for acceptance through appearance and behavior that have no productive impact…

— Greg Gutfeld

“Having rationally decided to become less rational, we hoped to find new, meaningful, exciting, useful truths. Folk”

— Mark Vonnegut