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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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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Honesty can be a dirty gift. It can muddy a sparkling stream of memories.
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Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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My generation isn’t tolerant of what they see as fake or staged. They’re looking for authenticity and honesty. Journalists who want to reach them need to be able to say, ‘I don’t personally have all the answers, but I do have a good idea about where we’ll find them.'
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We try to instill a sense of fair play, a sense of honesty.
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You can tell a person, not by what they say they are gratitude for, but how they respect what they claim to be grateful for.
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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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
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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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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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Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.
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One must not allow oneself to skid down to isolationism and unbridled economic egoism. ... The second possible mistake would be excessive interference into the economic life of the country. And the absolute faith into the all-mightiness of the state.
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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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Where I could not be honest, I never yet was valiant.
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I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.
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All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
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I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
