Honesty Quotes

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

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.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

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.

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.