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“It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.”

Hard Reality Accepting Honesty Ignorance Willing Intellectual Opposites Intellectual Honesty

Book:Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

Source: Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

“Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.”

People Mistake Responsibility Accepting Democracy Tree Honesty Demand Institutions Democratic Flowering Tinkering Flowering Trees

Author:Bill Vaughan

“No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.”

Has Beens Would Be Accepting Cases Honesty Needed Injustice Favors Favour Pardon Unwilling

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology and its varieties of religious experience. We are post-secular, inventing new faiths, without any sense of organizing truths. The truths we accept are so multiple that honesty becomes little more than a strategy by which you manage your tendencies toward duplicity.”

Littles Stills Religious Accepting Generations Honesty Strategy Theology Tendencies Manage Variety Posts Multiple Secular Inventing Religious Experience Duplicity

Author:Ann Douglas

“Honesty comes only with sound health, physically and psychologically, and an honest mind cannot be separated from the most genuine acknowledgment of expression. It should be recognized that pure perfection is unobtainable. Therefore, the realization that one's irrevocable faults and deficiencies must be faced guides us toward the first step of learning. We must each accept any situation as it actually is, with dignity. In that fine balance of acceptance of self and the mission to better oneself, compassion, humility, and discipline are nurtured.”

“Reality is a harsh mistress. She demands our honesty. She demands our work. She demands that we give up comforts, that we let ourselves feel pain, that we accept how small we are and how little control we have over our lives. And she demands that we make her our top priority. But she is more beautiful, and more powerful, and more surprising, and more fascinating, and more endlessly rewarding, than anything we could ever make up about her.”

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Author:Greta Christina