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What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
— Paul Valery
A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.
— Criss Jami
You are lost because you have not been being honest with yourself, and your life is largely unexamined and unexerted.
— Bryant McGill
The lasting sweetness of the wealth obtained is directly proportional to the honesty of its source. Dishonest wealth does not last.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Honesty is not always the bestpolicy when it hurts the
person you care about the
most and pushes them away. — Alison G. Bailey
It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
— Michel De Montaigne
There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.
— Richard Steele
The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
— E. M. Forster
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.
— Frank Herbert
I love you enough to tell you the truth whether you want to hear it or not, but what you do afterward is your choice alone.
— Ashley Ormon
It is not important what would you do for your love, what matters is what have you been doing for it.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.
— Richard M. Nixon
The truth is not what it seems, but what it is.
— Frank Sonnenberg
Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity. And part of that activity is honesty.
— Rory Stewart
From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]
— John Harington
Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.
— George Bernard Shaw
Truth may be unattainable, but honesty is not.
— Stephen Watson
If honesty did not exist, it would have to be invented, as it is the surest way of getting rich.
— Earl Nightingale
In all honesty, I'm not really familiar with Stevie Wonder's music, since country is more of my style. I really have no idea what I am doing.
— Kellie Pickler
I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.
— Jessica Warman
A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.
— Donald E. Williams Jr.
Honesty is the only trick to not trick anyone.
— Shawn Lukas
Honesty is not synonymous with truth.
— Vera Farmiga
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
— Richard Whately
Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, it is greatness itself.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.
— Sophie Hunger
I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face.
— Abdul Kalam
Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.
— Ray Blanton
When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.
— Clark Moustakas
Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
— Edward De Bono
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable
to its possessor unless
it is kept under control. — Don Marquis
Power does not corrupt; it merely elevates the degree in which something is done that has already been pursued.
— Felix O. Hartmann
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
— Albert Camus
What matters most is not 'what' you are, but 'who' you are.
— DaShanne Stokes
I'm probably projecting. I'm a projector. For example: The world is not terrible. I just keep thinking it is.
— Evan Roskos
Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
— Robert Frost
Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends
— Alexis De Tocqueville
How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.
— Henry Wotton
All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
— Mark Haddon
Truth is not a mystery - its greatest secrets are yours to know through simple honesty and surrender to what that honesty reveals.
— John De Ruiter
To be direct and honest is not safe.
— William Shakespeare
Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is So. Non-Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is Not So. — Donald L. Hicks
Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.
— Brooke Shields
Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.
— William J.H. Boetcker
In the world I inhabit, there is a shortage of intellectual honesty, but not of intelligence.
— Alessandro Baricco
Honesty is not the best policy in life. Only, perhaps, in art.
— Salman Rushdie
Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.
— Terry Goodkind
Trust is learning how you feel about yourself,not how others feel about you.
Do you trust how you feel.
If not, why. — Ron W. Rathbun
I may not know what is in store for me. However, I always know how I prefer to respond to my circumstances whatever they may be.
— Raphael Zernoff
Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.
— F.L. Lucas
That's how it is for women," I said, stung into honesty. "It's not what one would choose - I grant you that. But women are the very toys of fortune.
— Philippa Gregory
Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don't want to lie more than is average.
— Saul Bellow
Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.
— Criss Jami
Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.
— John Andreas Widtsoe
Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.
— Walter Lippmann
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
— William Faulkner
In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
— Dean Inge
Nations, like men, are wary of truth, for truth is too often not beautiful.
— Addison Gayle Jr.
Nothing worth doing is easy," frank said. "Especially not in the beginning. But I'm not about to give up.
— Morgan Matson
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
— Charles Dickens
A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.
— Sandra Chami Kassis
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
— James E. Faust
A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Honesty in small things is not a small thing.
— Robert C. Martin
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
— Michel De Montaigne
A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.
— T. Boone Pickens
Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.
— Charles H. Brower
It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist.
— Peter Atkins
Protecting our kids from sexual abuse is not accomplished in a single conversation, but in ongoing conversations grounded in honesty and trust.
— Carolyn Byers Ruch
All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
— Michel De Montaigne
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
— Victor Hugo
When truth and honesty is absent in the nation, it relates not just to the politicians.
— Sunday Adelaja
In our effort to be honest about our problems, it is not necessary that we cease to be mindful of our potential.
— T.K. Coleman
It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
— George Bernard Shaw
Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honestythese are Christian values. — Charles J. Chaput
Shamelessness is not the same as honesty.
— James Poniewozik
An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
— William Shakespeare
Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest
— William Shakespeare
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
