Honesty Quotes
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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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The thing with Superman is that he's completely emotionally open to the reader. Meaning what he tells you is what he's feeling; there's a transparency there. And what he tells other characters is usually as transparent as can be. What he says he believes in. So there's an honesty that is both really inspiring writing the character. One thing I love about Clark Kent is that there is a badassery that you don't see a lot. Even as Superman, he's always kind of restraining himself. When you challenge him, I think there's nobody that has a stronger spine than Superman.
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Honesty compels me to say that I am not a socialist. But so what?
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You can choose to be civil or not be civil. What is the point of going through the day and think it's cool to wear your honesty on your sleeve at the expense of everyone around you?
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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.
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We try to instill a sense of fair play, a sense of honesty.
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Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
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I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.
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The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are necessary in reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, business conditions, 'opinion' polls, the census. But without writers who use the words with honesty and understanding and readers who know what they mean, the result can only be semantic nonsense.
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Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.
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I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord.
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Honesty in principle was one thing. In someone’s face, it was another.
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It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
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That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.
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I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.
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Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.
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We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art.
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The man who believes that honesty is the best policy is not an honest man.
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A friend to honesty and a foe to crime.
