Honest
Definition: Free of deceit; truthful and sincere. Used to persuade someone of the truth of something.
Number of Quotes: 18
No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.
Henry Adams
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
John Quincy Adams
When dealing with complexity and uncertainty, trust and openness become critical.
David Dotlich
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the
man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Albert Einstein
It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest business. What is
true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
Mahatma Gandhi
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly
ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to
the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I keep six honest serving men
(They taught me all I know)
Their names
are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
He was the consummate politician. He didn't lie, neither did he tell the truth.
John Lundberg
I hate wearin' sunglasses, to be honest with you. You don't need sunglasses in Ireland.
Tristan MacManus
I drink a glass of water and half a lemon as soon as I wake up. I heard that it's supposed to
balance your body's pH. Not sure if that's true, but to be honest, it really helps with bloating.
Sonoya Mizuno
In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.
Vera Nazarian
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
I have nothing to offer you but my strength for your defence, my honesty for your surety, my ability and industry for
your livelihood, and my authority and position for your dignity. That is all it becomes a man to offer to a woman.
George Bernard Shaw
I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it, but I couldn't find honest employment.
Mark Twain
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington
You have to surround yourself with people you trust, and people that are good.
But they also have to be people who will tell the emperor you have no clothes.
Oprah Winfrey
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Henry Wotton
Last on Earth
