Honest Quotes - Page 33

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.

Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.

The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism". Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have a war against a tactic. It's deliberately vague and non-definable in order to justify and permit perpetual war anywhere and under any circumstance.

I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

My love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.

The legal system doesn't always serve as a good guide for your conscience. You can step way over the ethical line and still be inside the law. The same thing goes for rules, policies and procedures - you know, the organization's "internal laws." You can "go by the book" and still behave unethically. Still not move beyond mediocrity. High standards-the ethics of excellence-come to life through your basic values, your character, integrity and honesty. Obeying the law is the bare minimum.

A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty and integrity, to reach for the stars.

As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.