Quotessence
Home / Topics / Honesty Quotes

Honesty Quotes

Browse 4604 quotes about Honesty.

Related topics

MenPeopleTruthIfsIntegrityThinkingLyingCharacterKnowsBeing HonestWorldWayWantVirtueInspirationalMayShouldNeedsDishonestyHonest ManPolicyBelieveGivingHeartPersonsSelfMeanTruth And HonestyFeelsHumansTruth IsDoeRealHonesty And IntegrityImportantTryingMindHonesty Is The Best PolicyHonest TruthHonesty IntegrityTruth HonestyChildrenEthicsLongWellsLooksSpeakKindMatterWritingLifeSaidFirstsArtHardFacesLittlesPrinciplesTelling The TruthValuesQualitySometimesHas BeensStoriesI CanRealitySoulCompassionEndsFactsHonest PersonHumilitySimpleHonest And IntegrityHonorReasonWould BeDoneGovernmentSeemsWholeHe ManJusticeMadeMightMotivationalTrustTwoUseYearsAbsolutesBookFoundHandsIdeasOpinionSincerityStillsActionDifficultmore

Honesty Quotes

“The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. He needs no one to give him an 'Art Education'; he is already qualified. He needs but to see pictures with his active mind, look into them for the things that belong to him, and he will find soon enough in himself an art connoisseur and an art lover of the first order.”

MenNeedsGivingMindFirstsLooksArtEnoughDesireOrderHonestyHe ManReadyLoversIntegrityAppreciateActiveInquiryQualifiedCollectorsGood ArtHonesty IntegrityArt EducationSoon EnoughConnoisseurActive MindsArt Lovers
Book:The Art Spirit
Create image

“We have to think and see how we can fundamentally change our education system so that we can train people to develop warm-heartedness early on in order to create a healthier society. I don't mean we need to change the whole system, just improve it. We need to encourage an understanding that inner peace comes from relying on human values like, love, compassion, tolerance and honesty, and that peace in the world relies on individuals finding inner peace.”

PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsHumansMeanWholeValuesOrderIndividualUnderstandingCompassionHonestyFindingsTrainWarmToleranceInner PeaceRelyEncouragingWise Man Once SaidEducation SystemNeed A ChangeTibetanLike LoveHuman ValuesFinding Inner Peace
Author:Dalai Lama
Create image

“And we need to share our story. Not with everyone but with someone. There is someone who is like you were. And he or she needs to know what God can do. Your honest portrayal of your past may be the courage for another's future.”

KnowsNeedsMayGodStoriesPastCan DoCourageShareHonestHonestyLike YouFutureOur PastYour PastPortrayal
Book:The Lucado Inspirational Reader: Hope and Encouragement for Your Everyday Life
Create image

“If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying what they would like the results to have been—and finally—an important thing—the intelligence to interpret the results.”

IfsNeedsHas BeensImportantAbilityResultsProgressHonestyImportanceImportant ThingsIntelligenceExperimentsInterpretation
Book:The Quotable Feynman
Create image

“What we often take to be family values--the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility--are in fact social, religious, or cultural values. To be sure, these values are transmitted by parents to their children and are familial in that sense. They do not, however, originate within the family. It is the value of close relationships with other family members, and the importance of these bonds relative to other needs.”

NeedsChildrenFactsValuesIndividualSocialParentReligiousResponsibilityHonestyMembersEthicsImportanceCleanRelativeWork EthicFidelityFamily MembersFamily ValuesRelationships With OthersIndividual ResponsibilityClose RelationshipClean Living
Author:David Elkind
Create image

“I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.”

MenWantNeedsLooksLongStillsMomentsTruthSchoolDifficultWomenEducationTeachingHonestEventsHonestyWillingHe ManJudgmentMen And WomenTraditionScientistDifficultyPrejudiceAdversityExcellenceEducatedConcentrationEngineersSlogansScientists And Engineers
Author:John F. Kennedy
Create image

“Executives run organizations. In business, we need executives who have clarity, people who are in touch with themselves. Then, in leadership and management positions, they can be good role models and leaders. The people I know who have really moved their organizations are scrupulous role models. They are so clear about honesty, integrity, openness, mutual self-respect, dignity for the individual, and creativity, that they don't deviate from these principles at all in their behavior.”

PeopleKnowsNeedsSelfRunningIndividualBusinessLeaderPrinciplesRolesCreativityClearHonestyPositionIntegrityBehaviorModelsDignityOrganizationManagementMovedBe GoodClaritySelf RespectExecutivesMutualOpennessRole ModelsLeadership And ManagementHonesty IntegrityDeviateGood Role Models
Author:Michael Ray
Create image

“Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.”

NeedsTwoTruthLyingGrowsHonestyTruth IsEthicsFaultsDareBeing TrueLiedTruth And LiesHonest TruthTruth And HonestyTruth HonestyLies TruthNothing But The Truth
Book:Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor
Create image

“One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest personal concerns-about ethics, spiritual experience, and the inevitability of human suffering-in ways that are not flagrantly irrational. We desperately need a public discourse that encourages critical thinking and intellectual honesty. Nothing stands in the way of this project more that the respect we accord religious faith.”

ThinkingWayNeedsFirstsHumansSpiritualSufferingSpiritualitySpeakChallengesReligiousHuman BeingsCenturyHonestyCivilizationProjectsIntellectualEthicsConcernTwentiesCriticalIrrationalDiscourseReligious FaithAccordCritical ThinkingInevitabilitySpiritual ExperienceHuman SufferingPublic DiscourseIntellectual Honesty
Book:Letter to a Christian Nation
Create image

“People - Catholics and non-Catholics - are amazingly open to begin again in their walk with Jesus and in the Church when they hear clarity and honesty. What they don't put up with, thank God, is dishonesty and cover-up. And so I speak as openly as I possibly can about the difficulties of the Church because we shouldn't be afraid to call out an abuse of the wonderful gift God gives to us of the Church. When we - its members and its leaders - are imperfect we need to change. We need to begin again. That begins with honesty.”

PeopleNeedsGivingJesusSpeakChurchWalksLeaderWonderfulHonestyMembersAbuseDifficultyCatholicClarityThank GodImperfectDishonestyNeed A ChangeCover UpsBegin Again
Author:Jonathan Morris
Create image

“Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”

LoveNeedsBelieveTruthFriendshipEnemyNiceHonestyFriendsMy FriendsExperienceGenerosityExplanationSocialistMy Best FriendExplainingTrue FriendTrue FriendshipAnarchistBest FriendMy FriendshipYour Best FriendAbout FriendshipLove And FriendshipFriendship LoveFriendship MemoriesOne Line FriendshipBeliveBest FriendshipMind Your Own BusinessFriendship DayFunny FriendInspirational FriendshipHappy FriendshipInspiring FriendsFriends And EnemiesBeautiful WordsTrue Best FriendNot FriendsFriend In NeedHearts And FriendsFriend EnemyFunny Best FriendReally Cute Best FriendLong FriendshipCute Best FriendAwesome FriendshipMind Your OwnSweet FriendReally Funny Best FriendYour My Best FriendLife Love FriendshipExplain YourselfTwo Best Friends
Author:Elbert Hubbard
Create image

“Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ's gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.”

NeedsFactsFacesFoundInterestChristCommonHonestyCostMessagesStressLaysCrowdsFollowingSinnerUrgesGatheringPresentationFollowing Christ
Author:J. I. Packer
Create image

“I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.”

ThinkingWayNeedsWritingMeanPersonsArtEyeTogetherFrontsHonestyPhotographyArt IsObservationRelatedTelling The TruthAccuracyEloquent
Author:Eudora Welty
Create image

“If you're going to live in a community, you have to refrain from killing one another and stealing from one another. You must have honor and honesty in your dealings with one another. But I think the deeper thing that we need to do is to become so fully human that we don't grasp at life; we give life away. We give love away. We give being away. That is the ultimate work of religion.”

IfsThinkingNeedsGivingHumansCommunityHonestyHonorUltimateKillingDeeperStealingRefrainDealings
Author:John Shelby Spong
Create image

“All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment. So merely changing formal religious affiliations will often not help much. On the other hand, in pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!”

PeopleNeedsTryingHelpingHandsRunningChoicesReligiousJusticeCompassionHonestyLike YouBenefitsMessagesDemocraticCuriousContentmentFormalLove And CompassionDemocratic SocietyAffiliation
Author:Dalai Lama
Create image

“There is a moral virtue, a moral fidelity, ability and honesty, which other men, besides church members, are, by good nature and education, by good laws and good examples nourished and trained up in; so that civil places and trust and credit need not be monopolized into the hands of church members (who sometimes are not fitted for public office), while all others are deprived and despoiled of their natural and civil rights and liberties.”

MenNeedsSometimesHandsLawNaturalChurchAbilityLibertyMoralVirtueRightsHonestyExampleMembersOfficeCreditCivil RightsDeprivedFidelityGood ExamplesPublic OfficeGood NatureMoral VirtuesChurch Members
Author:Roger Williams
Create image

“My fifth mother is Mother Nature - the things I had to learn on my own, the understanding I had to come to and still have to come to as a young woman, as a responsible mother, a responsible granddaughter and child. She teaches me willpower, honesty, and the things we need to heal ourselves from moment to moment.”

NeedsChildrenStillsMomentsYoungMotherUnderstandingMy OwnTeachHonestyResponsibleHealYoung WomenWillpowerFifthMother NatureGranddaughter
Author:Erykah Badu
Create image

“The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.”

NeedsRunningFacesTurnsAsksFatherClassHonestySonArmsDadDaughterHotMy DadShouldersShakesMy DaughterFatherhoodDaddyFathers DayFather SonHostageYour DaughterYour DadPawsFather And SonBeing A FatherSon And DaughterGreat FatherChristian FatherBeing A DadFryingHappy First Fathers DayDaughter To FatherCute Fathers DayFrying PansDad LoveFather Daughter LoveHigh ClassBeautiful DaughterThree DaughtersAntlersLake Wobegon
Author:Garrison Keillor
Create image

“I think that honesty in presenting the gospel goes out the window when you want people to respond to the message, but you are prepared to accept any sort of response. Of course, the only true response is heartfelt repentance and faith. However, if you don't feel the need to be honest in your presentation, then you will calibrate your presentation of the gospel to whatever gets the response you want.”

PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsFeelsCoursesAcceptingHonestHonestyMessagesWindowPreparedResponseBeing HonestRepentancePresentationPresentingHeartfelt
Author:Mark Dever
Create image

“On the question of women's sexual freedom or female independence, there are still issues that haven't been worked out. There's an aura of traditional gender roles that is not talked about that really permeates these conversations. There is this vacillation between a desire for independence and having the kinds of sexual freedom that men have and, on the other side, issues about female vulnerability and susceptibility to male aggression and violence. We need more honesty about the actual conditions in which sex is happening.”

MenNeedsKindStillsDesireSexSidesRolesIssuesViolenceConditionsHavensHonestyConversationHappeningsFemaleIndependenceMalesGenderTraditionalVulnerabilityAggressionGender RolesAurasSusceptibilityVacillationAggression And Violence
Author:Laura Kipnis
Create image

“When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of the list - somewhere between politicians and car salesmen. Generally, insurers are seen as clever hucksters who prey on insecurity and ignorance to sell people what they don't need at prices they shouldn't have to pay.”

PeopleNeedsEndsTermPayCarHonestyIgnorancePoliticianEthicsSellsBottomProfessionListsCleverAgentsInsecurityPreySalesmanCar SalesmanInsurance Agent
Author:James Surowiecki
Create image

“We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.”

NeedsLightEyeLeftToo MuchHonestyTearsGoes OnComfortOne DayIllusionNakedBricksLiberatingShieldsRelentlessDazzleBright Lights
Book:The Sweet Far Thing
Create image

“There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labor of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work of his brain or his hands is dishonest.”

PeopleMenWorldNeedsTryingKindMadeTwoHandsEarthLyingWealthBrainPlansShareHonestHonestyThis WorldLaborCarefulYieldContributingHonest Man
Book:Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers
Create image

“My grandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily. "He would have called you 'She Moves Trees Out of His Path.' " She looked lost, but his da laughed. He'd known the old man, too. "He called me 'He Who Must Run into Trees,'" Charles explained, and in a spirit of honesty, a need for his mate to know who he was, he continued, "or sometimes 'Running Eagle.' " " 'Running Eagle'?" Anna puzzled it over, frowning at him. "What's wrong with that?" "Too stupid to fly," murmured his father with a little smile.”

KnowsMenNeedsLittlesSometimesRunningMovingSpiritFatherLostKnownPathTreeStupidHonestyMetsOld ManLaughedMatesGrandfatherEaglesMy GrandfatherAnnaPuzzledFrowning
Author:Patricia Briggs
Create image