Honesty Quotes - Page 45

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

We believe in honesty, morality, and purity; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we cannot submit. God is greater than the United States, and when the Government conflicts with heaven, we will be ranged under the banner of heaven and against the Government...Polygamy is a divine institution. It has been banded down direct from God. The United States cannot abolish it. No nation on the earth can prevent it, nor all the nations of the earth combined...I defy the United States; I will obey God.

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

Truth is not a mystery - its greatest secrets are yours to know through simple honesty and surrender to what that honesty reveals.

Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and poison has been hawked as excellent food. The story of fraud throughout the ages forms an ugly chapter of human history.

The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious of them must, therefore, be separated from the mass, and placed by themselves in a senate; this is, to all honest and useful intents, an ostracism.

He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.

He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.

There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him; you show your admiration by confessing the truth. That directness doesn't work with humans, who are masters of subterfuge. Does this dress make me look fat? Do you really love me? Did you miss me? When a person asks this, she doesn't want to know the real answer. She wants you to lie to her. After two years of living with wolves, I had forgotten how many lies it takes to build a relationship.

It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it

I have been drunk now for over two weeks.

To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward.

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.

No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die.

Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.