Quotes about Honesty

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

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Mother Teresa

Nun, Missionary

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.

Destroying - Frankness - Honesty - Oneself - Paradox - Vulnerability

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Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr's death will send them straight to heaven.

Atheism - Belief - Enough - Feelings - Heavens - Honesty - Human - Martyr - People

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Margaret Thatcher

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

Israel must never be expected to jeopardize her security: if she was ever foolish enough to do so, and then suffered for it, the backlash against both honest brokers and Palestinians would be immense - 'land for peace' must also bring peace.

Broker - Expectation - Foolishness - Honesty - Palestine

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Benjamin Franklin

Polymath, Founding Father of the United States

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

Countries - Doing - Having - Honesty - Morals - Ownership - Wishing

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Thomas A. Edison

Clergyman, Inventor, Inventor

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Abuse - Animals - Character - Ethics - Evolution - Goals - Honesty - Humane - Integrity - Life - Peace - Right - Savagery - Vegan - Vegetarian - Violence - Virtue

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

Honesty - Rich - Virtue

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Aristophanes

Comic Playwright

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.

Education - Honesty - Man

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Writer, Activist

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

Cynicism - Honesty - Man - Sharing

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.

Cowardice - Help - Honesty - Knowledge - Making - Revolution - Teaching

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Neil Gaiman

Author, Screenwriter

We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest.

Attraction - Children - Death - Honesty - Man - People - Utopia - Vision - World - Writing

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Salman Rushdie

Politician, Novelist, Novelist

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Censorship - Honesty - Integrity

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Jean Rostand

Novelist, Scientist, Biologist

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Book - Honesty - Lie - Reality

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Dale Carnegie

Writer, Lecturer

Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help disarm your opponents and reduce defensiveness.

Apology - Help - Honesty - Mistake - Opposition

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Writer, Activist

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

Cynicism - Honesty - Man - Sharing

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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to evade its existence, to misrepresent its nature, and to destroy its last remnants - you maybe sure that whatever their motives, love of man is not one of them.

Capitalism - Existence - Honesty - Humane - Man - Motivation - Struggle

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.

Animals - Heavens - Honesty - Making - Man - Religion - Trial

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

Feelings - Honesty - Human - Man

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.

Honesty

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Napoleon Hill

Leader, Writer, Author

If you are one of those people who believe that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches-perish the thought; because it's not true. Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hard work. Riches come if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck.

Belief - Chance - Demanding - Honesty - Luck - People - Principle - Rich

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