Quotes on Honest

Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy. -Lukas Jessen-Petersen

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.

I hate diversity workshops. “Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.

American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.