Quotes on Honest

How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and, possessing all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner? Ought a gentleman to be a loyal son, a true husband, an honest father? Ought his life to be decent, his bills to be paid, his taste to be high and elegant, his aims in life lofty and noble?

Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: One gateway of honest horn, and one of ivory. Issuing by the ivory gate are dreams of glimmering illusion, fantasies, but those that come through solid polished horn may be borne out, if mortals only know them.

Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar.

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.

Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.

The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.

Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motivation thoroughly. One should be very truthful, honest, and reasonable. One's actions should be good for others, and for oneself as well. Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret.

Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every human soul. . . And the little helpless buzzings of honest, liberal, kindly people, aren't they like the thin little noise flies make when they're caught?

And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope.

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.