Quotessence
Home / Topics / Honest Quotes

Honest Quotes

Browse 4874 quotes about Honest.

Related topics

Being HonestPeopleIfsThinkingMenKnowsWantWayHonest ManTryingWorldFeelsWritingKindRealGivingPersonsBelieveWellsI CanNeedsShouldMeanImportantMayLooksLyingHeartCharacterLittlesFirstsHardBookLongYearsDoeSometimesHumansHonestlyEnoughDoneHonest With YourselfSaidChildrenMadeSongDifferentMindFeelingsHas BeensShowsStillsHelpingOpinionStoriesActorsBigsFilmSeemsWantedArtBitsHonest PeopleAbleFactsIdeasSelfWould BeAsksEndsMomentsArtistJobsBe Honest With YourselfCareCountryPoliticalGovernmentGuyMightReasonKidsMatterPlayTruthTruthfulAmericaSimpleTwoWholeIntegrityGirlStuffAnswersFunHurtFacesPoliticianRealityUsemore

Honest Quotes

“If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.”

IfsMenShouldMayMeanDesireHonestDangerousHatredEvery ManEndeavorTemperProvokingGood WillEnmityDesire To Live
Book:The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author
Create image

“To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.”

PeopleMenWorldWellsEarthDesireHumanityIndividualRealizingReligiousSacrificeHonestThis WorldGreat ThingsBeing HonestNobilityVulgarityFatherlandPersonal Desire
Author:Ernest Renan
Create image

“Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.”

MenWellsLongActionDesireTurnsBornCompanyBreakVirtueHonestHonorInstinctVicesNobleShakesHonourDeniedVirtuousDispositionForbiddenConstraintsSpursServitudeNature Of ManSubjection
Author:Francois Rabelais
Create image

“Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.”

IfsHeartKindHas BeensMadeRealSelfReasonEnoughPhilosophyFactsProblemInspirationDesireOpinionHonestColdDevelopmentPureBottomPhilosopherNoiseAbstractAssumptionTouchedVirtuousSelf DevelopmentTruthfulnessHunchesDialecticsUnconcernedNot Honest
Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
Create image

“There's only one honest way to measure affluence; that's by comparing the capability of producing goods and services with the desire of people to enjoy them. It's a lousy, crooked trick to compare this society with China or some such place and then say we're affluent. It's a piece of intellectual crookery even to compare this economy with itself ten or twenty years ago. We should compare what we have with what we could have.”

PeopleWayShouldYearsWisdomDesirePoliticsEnjoyEconomyPiecesHonestTenIntellectualYears AgoTwentiesChinaTricksCompareLiberalismGoodsCapabilityCrookedAffluenceThis SocietyAffluentGoods And Services
Author:Louis O. Kelso
Create image

“a little of the ready reliance on the expert comes from the desire to waive responsibillity, comes from the endless evasion of life instead of an honest facing of it. The expert is to many what the priest is, someone who knows absolutely and can tell us what to do. The king, the priest, the expert, have one after the other had our allegiance, but so far as we put any of them in the place of ourselves, we have not a sound society and neither individual nor general progress.”

KnowsLittlesDesireIndividualSoundProgressHonestReadyKingsEndlessExpertsPriestsRelianceAllegianceEvasion
Author:Mary Parker Follett
Create image

“An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.”

MenSelfDesireConsciousnessHonestPaintingEgoDegreesShadowPaintDramaticArtificialIntroducingPortraitsHighlightsSelf ConsciousnessSelf Portrait
Author:W. H. Auden
Create image

“A hopeful book that moms will relish, Blue Like Playdough is an honest, peel-back-the-covers look at the creative way God shapes us through childhood and parenthood. Tricia Goyer explores her own weaknesses along the journey, revealing her desire to serve the God who forms strength and joy and perseverance within her. A compelling, fresh read.”

WayLooksBookFormJoyDesireCreativeJourneyChildhoodHonestMomShapesWeaknessBluePerseveranceHopefulParenthoodCompellingRevealingRelish
Author:Mary E. DeMuth
Create image

“If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.”

IfsMenWorldKindMayHandsDesireViolenceHonestBenefitsLaysSakeQuittingViolentTyrannyInnocentHonest ManOppressorsRobbers
Book:Two treatises of government
Create image

“I want to engage people in an honest, enlightened, and provocative conversation about the nature of erotic desire and the intricacies of intimacy and sexuality. The object of my game is to bring nonjudgmental, multicultural understanding to the challenges and choices of modern relationships.”

PeopleWantDesireChoicesGamesUnderstandingChallengesModernHonestObjectsConversationSexualityIntimacyEnlightenedEroticProvocativeMulticulturalIntricacy
Author:Esther Perel
Create image

“I remember being in West Ham's youth team and seeing Jody Morris play for Chelsea at 17 and you scoring for Liverpool on your debut when you were 18. I was watching it on Soccer Saturday and I was like, "I can't believe he's scored!" It's professional jealousy. It's best to be honest about it. It gave me real desire. I was thinking "God I want that to be me".”

ThinkingWantBelieveI CanRealPlayRememberDesireSeeingTeamHonestYouthWestBeing HonestSoccerSaturdayLiverpoolHamChelseaDebutMorrisThinking GodWest Ham
Author:Frank Lampard
Create image