Honesty Quotes

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Honesty has always been very important to me.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

In all honesty, I'm not able to talk about contracts. It's nothing with 'American Idol' in particular, it's just things I really need to take care of in my life.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.