Honesty Quotes
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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
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That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.
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You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
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Living such an opaque life has forced me never to take transparency, openness, and honesty for granted.
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By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
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Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
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Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.
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Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.
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Even if you know that what you'll say will hurt a woman's feelings, I've learned that it's better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about.
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It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it
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Honesty can be a dirty gift. It can muddy a sparkling stream of memories.
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I started to feel songwriting was pulling different pieces of my heart out - the more I started writing, the more there was honesty.
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Throughout much of history, women writers have capitulated to male standards, and have paid too much heed to what Virginia Woolf calls "the angel in the house." She is that little ghost who sits on one's shoulder while one writes and whispers, "Be nice, don't say anything that will embarrass the family, don't say anything your man will disapprove of ..." [ellipsis in original] The "angel in the house" castrates one's creativity because it deprives one of essential honesty, and many women writers have yet to win the freedom to be honest with themselves.
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I don't want to be a hero, I don't want to ever let you down.
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Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
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For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.
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We do have to remain true to the idea of honesty within what you want to do.
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There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.
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It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.
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I want to hear from my team in a way that they know they don't have to hold back. I've made it clear that there are no repercussions for brutal honesty. I let them know that we want to hear about anything they feel is not working for the company.
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Honesty compels me to say that I am not a socialist. But so what?
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If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying what they would like the results to have been—and finally—an important thing—the intelligence to interpret the results.
