Honest Quotes

The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.

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

I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life. I'd rather be an honest friend than a phony lover.

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

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment. The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good.

Speaking as an actress, I wish all actors would be more like Duke Wayne. And speaking as a person, it would be nice if all people could be honest and as genuine as he is. This is a real man.

I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.

Okay I'll be honest girl I can't lie I miss you.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

In an honest man there is always something of a child.

A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor.

I am inspired by honest people who don't cheat others. To me the famous are those who are kind to fellow human beings and dedicate their life to charity.

A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.

No matter how it looks to us, love never loses control; the laws of our relations are as honest and as exact as the laws of physics.

I’ve always been a person who’s been true to myself and true to others and I’m not afraid to be honest.

Look-ye, 'tis my Opinion, ev'ry Man cheats in his Way. And he is only honest, who is not discover'd.

A common misperception of me is that I am a victim. I am not a victim. I am just honest about how things affect me.

We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.

A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.

Be prepared and be honest.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

I say too much sometimes, but I'm honest, that's the important thing.

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

Be sweet, be good, and honest always.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.

I'm just a human being that is in touch with myself. And I'm honest with myself. And I really, at the end of the day, don't care what people say. I never cared about what people say.

There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

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

Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

Integrity is not a given factor in everyone's life. It is a result of self-discipline, inner trust, and a decision to be relentlessly honest in all situations in our lives.

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.