100+ Honesty Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times". Book by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, the edition by Philip Ayres, 1999.

topic: Beauty, Honesty, World

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music....

- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

topic: Truth, Honesty, World, Features

Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed.

- Anthony Lane

source: Anthony Lane (2009). “Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker”, p.651, Vintage

topic: Honesty, Order, Kitchen, Cookbook, Browsers

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

- Anthony Trollope

topic: Honesty, Thinking, Rogues

When you finally embrace the gift of your sexual orientation it IS the end; the end of shame, fear and oppression. You leave the darkness of the closet and begin a life of honesty, authenticity and freedom.

- Anthony Venn-Brown

topic: Honesty, Gay, Darkness

If you are in the closet and fall in love with someone of the same gender, it doesn't automatically remove the shame and fear that's kept you locked away. The love you are experiencing encourages you to face the reality that this is who you really are and also has the power to set you free. The richness, beauty and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty and vulnerability. Love, the most powerful of human emotions, is calling you to freedom and wholeness.

- Anthony Venn-Brown

topic: Love, Honesty, Powerful, Depth Of Love, Human Emotions

A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if a newspaper reporter, because of his fastidiousness or from a wish to give pleasure to his readers, were to describe only honest mayors, high-minded ladies, and virtuous railroad contractors.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Honesty, Giving, Wish, Newspaper Reporters

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

- Antonio Banderas

topic: Honesty, Thinking, Careers

Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, crushed humans in crushed uniforms, sluggish, unshaven, in their thirties or forties or fifties but still "boys." But that is your fate if you do your job well - with honesty, dedication, and sincerity, the way Gandhi would have done it, no doubt.

- Aravind Adiga

topic: Jobs, Honesty, Fate

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

- Aristotle

topic: Truth, Honesty, Ethics, Lies Truth, Deviation

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

- Aristotle

topic: Truth, Honesty, Plato

Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.

- Aristotle

topic: Honesty, Men, Excellence, Moral Excellence

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

- Armistead Maupin

source: "Armistead Maupin: San Francisco's chronicler calls time on his saga" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2014.

topic: Honesty, Gay, Numbers, Life Philosophy

About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

- Arthur Baer

topic: Honesty, Heart, Player, Larceny

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

- Arthur Dobrin

topic: Trust, Truth, Honesty, Being Truthful, There Is Always A Way

There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting his or her feelings, however unfit the time, however inappropriate the place, however painful this expression may be, lays claim, forsooth, to our approbation as an honest person, and sneers at those of finer sensibilities as hypocrites.

- Arthur Helps

topic: Honesty, Hypocrite, Expression

You beat 50 percent of the people in America by working hard. You beat 40 percent by being a person of honesty and integrity and standing for something. The last 10 percent is a dogfight in the free enterprise system.

- Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

topic: Honesty, Integrity, America

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

- Arthur Peacocke

source: Arthur Peacocke (2004). “Evolution: The Disguised Friend of Faith?”, p.160, Templeton Foundation Press

topic: Honesty, Integrity, Intellectual, Intellectual Honesty

For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book published in 1653 spoke not of anglers and , but anglers OR very honest men .

- Arthur Ransome

topic: Honesty, Book, Men, Questionable

It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing.

- Asher Roth

topic: Honesty, Hip Hop, Odyssey, Astonishing

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

- Ashly Lorenzana

topic: Honesty, Lying, Heart, Living A Lie

A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.

- Ashraf Dehghani

source: "Torture & Resistance in Iran: Memoirs of the Woman Guerrilla Ashraf Dehghani". Book by Ashraf Dihqani, 1978.

topic: Honesty, Lying, Men, Treachery

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

- Audre Lorde

source: Audre Lorde (1995). “The Black Unicorn: Poems”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Honesty, Silence, Empowering, Inspirational Women, Self Empowerment

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

- Audre Lorde

topic: Honesty, People, Listening

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Honesty, Reading, Fairytale, Happy Girl

Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age

- August Sander

source: August Sander (1980). “August Sander: photographs of an epoch, 1904-1959 : man of the twentieth century, Rhineland landscapes, nature studies, architectural and industrial photographs, images of Sardinia : [exhibition]”

topic: Photography, Honesty, People

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

- Austin Peck

topic: Honesty, People, Causes, Chuckles

I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

- Ayelet Waldman

topic: Honesty, Mean, Computer, Personal Essays, Computer Screen

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1448, Penguin

topic: Honesty, Sacrifice, Men

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

- Azar Nafisi

topic: Honesty, People, Honest

In our way of working, we attach a great deal of importance to humility and honesty; With respect for human values, we promise to serve our customers with integrity.

- Azim Premji

topic: Honesty, Integrity, Educational, Great Service, Human Values

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Honesty, Character, Belief, Honest Man

Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

- B. F. Skinner

topic: Education, Honesty, Intellectual, Intellectual Honesty, Behaviorism

Yoga is the rule book for playing the game of Life, but in this game no one needs to lose. It is tough, and you need to train hard. It requires the willingness to think for yourself, to observe and correct, and to surmount occasional setbacks. It demands honesty, sustained application, and above all love in your heart.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Honesty, Yoga, Book, Train Hard

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Honesty, Needs, Rehearsal, Dishonesty And Lying, Telling Lies

What reaches an audience is honesty. If you're saying something truthful that's supposed to be a funny line, it's going to be funny. And if it's supposed to be a serious line, it's going to be serious. But, I don't think there's a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it's based in the truth.

- Barbra Streisand

topic: Honesty, Drama, Thinking

Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.

- Barnabe Rich

topic: Honesty, Bribery, Gates

I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

- Baz Luhrmann

topic: Honesty, Fighting, Actors

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

- Bell Hooks

topic: Honesty, Insightful, Foundation

Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.

- Bell Hooks

topic: Honesty, Heart, Commitment, Groundwork

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.

- Ben E. King

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Honesty, People, Streets

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

- Ben Jonson

topic: Honesty, Men, Two

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

- Ben Jonson

topic: Honesty, Vulgar

Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.

- Benjamin Bratt

topic: Honesty, Actors, Film, Film Actors

I've always felt that acting is acting at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.

- Benjamin Bratt

topic: Honesty, Drama, Believe, Make Believe, Semblance

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

- Benjamin Cardozo

topic: Honesty, Honor, Sensitive

What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.

- Benjamin Cardozo

source: "The Paradoxes of Legal Science". Book by Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1928.

topic: Honesty, Men, Gains

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

- Benjamin Disraeli

source: Lewis Carroll (2008). “The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.375, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Honesty, World, Helpful, Admission, Wrongdoing

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Art, Truth, Honesty

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Happiness, Christmas, Honesty, Polymaths

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Wisdom, Honesty, Integrity, Knowledge And Wisdom, Knowledge And Ignorance

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: God, Honesty, Humorous

No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.

- Benjamin Rudyerd

source: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Benjamin Rudyerd (capt.) (1841). “Memoirs of Sir Benjamin Rudyerd: Containing His Speeches and Poems. To which are Added the Letters of His Great-great-grandson Benjamin Rudyerd”, p.130

topic: Wise, Honesty, Men

Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.

- Benjamin Stillingfleet

topic: Art, Honesty, Helping

One good Man may take another's Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty, but what is built upon Necessity; for unhappy is the People, and their Constitution will be ever precarious, whose Welfare must depend upon the Virtues and Consciences of Ministers and Politicians.

- Bernard de Mandeville

source: "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark Q, pp. 207-208, 1732.

topic: Honesty, Men, People, Precarious

What a pleasure it is to be in business with BASE. I'm impressed with the honesty, integrity and efficiency with which they operate. The next show I do and represent, I will be doing with them all over again.

- Bernie Brillstein

topic: Honesty, Integrity, Next

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.