Honesty Quotes
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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.
Darrell Huff
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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Richard Whately
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Horses in the Book of Mormon would be another. You have relatively few mentions of horses, but there are some, and we don't know exactly how they were used; they don't seem to be all that common. Were they horses as we understood them, [or] does the term describe some other animal? Languages don't always and cultures don't always classify things the way we would expect. We have what we call common-sense ways of doing it. They're not common sense; they're just ours. But again, we don't have a strong case there. We're just problem solving there.
Daniel C. Peterson
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All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.
Nigel Kneale
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
Vladimir Lenin
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Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without downright honesty and honor, and readiness to keep the commandments and live within the law...there is no liberty without a real respect for law; no liberty if we forget God, or fail to remember the principles on which freedom is founded.
Richard L. Evans
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On his mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: 'I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.' To the executioner: 'Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thyne office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thyne honesty.'
Thomas More
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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.
Ray Lewis
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I'm not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there's a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time.
Dolly Parton
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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.
Anzia Yezierska
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I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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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.
Meredith Monk
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Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.
Charles H. Brower
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We try to instill a sense of fair play, a sense of honesty.
Jessy White
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We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
William Jennings Bryan
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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.
Richard Feynman
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I hope you're never happy with anybody but me, and every face you look into, I hope you're haunted by me. Yes, I'm possessive and jealous, at least I speak honestly.
Dolly Parton
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Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
Stephen Covey
