Top 100 Quotes About An Honest
#1. You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.
George Santayana
#2. To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.
Richard Dawkins
#3. The difference between honest and dishonest commerce is that when an honest man or woman of business ruins someone, they don't have the courtesy to cut their throat to finish the affair.
Scott Lynch
#4. Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man ... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!
Victor Hugo
#5. We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.
David Gill
#6. To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.
Arthur Koestler
#7. Mickey represented an honest product, a pure spirit and a cheerful heart, a sort of staggeringly simple pleasure in the exercise of the imagination.
Eve Zibart
#8. An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.
Benjamin Franklin
#9. I may be a burglar ... but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#10. Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put any bait to his fishhook! He who dares to be ideally honest, let him know how hard it is to be such an honest!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#11. I give her back an honest-to-goodness smile, the old Ben Parish smile, the one that got me practically everything I wanted. Well, not practically; I'm being modest.
Rick Yancey
#12. Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.
Mike Rowe
#13. Liverpool is a massive club in reputation, but as soon as I came here, it felt like Atletico to me. It is a working city, an honest city. The people work all week, and on Saturday they want to go to Anfield and watch the best team in the world.
Fernando Torres
#15. An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.
Hosni Mubarak
#16. My father Sam, by his lifelong example, displayed for me the virtues of an honest day's work and of great personal courage.
Marv Levy
#17. She continued to look out the window for a moment, her humanity and thoughtfulness tucked away inside a tight frown, an honest brushstroke in a boring painting.
Joseph Fink
#18. HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
George Bishop Berkeley
#19. The first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.
Umberto Eco
#20. Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.
Charles Dickens
#21. The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco
#22. Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we'll do well as a party.
Tom Coburn
#23. No one, by swearing, makes themselves an ounce more honest; any more than a man makes himself wealthy by counting his gold. Oaths may make a liar a liar yet again, having lied about the oath as well. But it cannot alter the worth of an honest man's word.
Jake Yaniak
#24. If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.
Alveda King
#26. The angel told her, An honest man who committed a crime, you have no idea how many honest men have committed crimes, their crimes are countless, and contrary to popular belief these are the only crimes that cannot be forgiven.
Jose Saramago
#27. The willingness to take an honest look at yourself and the ways you can improve is a great act of courage.
Derek Doepker
#29. Reference to eminent figures of the past serves to lend tone to what would otherwise be merely an honest search for the truth.
Bernard Suits
#30. The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executives and newspaper publishers, all of whom are scrambling to figure out how to reconfigure their business models in such a way as to allow them to make an honest buck.
Terry Teachout
#31. I get sick of that old rationalization, "We're staying together because of the children." Kids couldn't be more miserable living with parents who can't stand each other. They're far better off if there's an honest, clean divorce.
Johnny Carson
#32. ...an honest life... is the path of least resistance, the existence that required the least calculation.
Jose Sevilla Ho
#35. If something doesn't come out of your mouth right, you've got to acknowledge the fact that you're trying to deliver an honest performance. If it doesn't' come out of your mouth correctly, then it's not going to work.
Guy Pearce
#36. This, reader, is an honest book ... I want to appear in my simple, natural and everyday dress, without strain or artifice; for it is myself that I portray
Michel De Montaigne
#37. I want everything to be an honest extension of me. What better way than me talking? It's a direct connection with everyone. With film and television, you make great projects, but stand-up is the thing that is completely yours.
Jerrod Carmichael
#38. If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.
Barry S. Strauss
#39. The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.
Theodore Roosevelt
#40. seem an honest man, sir," she said. " 'Let be be the end of seem,' " I said. She smiled faintly. " 'The only emperor,' " she said, " 'is the emperor of ice-cream.' " "Very good,
Robert B. Parker
#41. Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
Henry David Thoreau
#42. To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two.
Ewa Kopacz
#44. The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.
Chogyam Trungpa
#45. An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#47. If we place an honest, though less wealthy person on a higher pedestal than a corrupt, yet rich individual, we will have contributed to India's progress. And
Chetan Bhagat
#48. Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
#49. Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat.
Brian Celio
#50. When there is very little else left to believe in, one can still believe in an honest loaf of fragrant, home-baked bread.
Anna Thomas
#51. It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen.
Hattie McDaniel
#52. But God will span the universe to meet the believer who is real. He'd take an honest mess over a pretty lie any day.
Jen Hatmaker
#53. There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now.
Bill Scott
#54. It may not quite reflect the maturity of "Thy will be done," but it is better to be an honest mess before God than a dishonest "saint.
John Ortberg
#55. These will suffice; who knows but we may be on a slope which leads down to
aboriginal savagery. But of this 1 am sure: if we are to escape, we must not yield a foot upon demanding a fair field and an honest race to all ideas.
Nelson Algren
#56. My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.
Stephen Pagliuca
#57. I think that, you know, this is a different year than most years. We've got to tell the American people that we have to live with less. We have a $13.5 trillion debt. And the only way to do that is an honest campaign with honest people.
Ken Buck
#58. There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil
improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?"
"Are you a young lady?"
"I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.
Charlotte Bronte
#59. I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way ... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.
Chris Crutcher
#60. It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.
Regina King
#61. I try to be an honest originalist! I will take the bitter with the sweet!
Antonin Scalia
#62. The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.
Edward Young
#65. Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.
Thomas Jefferson
#66. Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he said no, more of a papa's boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.
Eugene Jarecki
#67. When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.
Mark Twain
#68. I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I've become.
Jewel
#69. Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?
Robert Kiyosaki
#70. The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.
Charles Peguy
#71. I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.
Ben Fountain
#72. Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident ... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.
Elizabeth Edwards
#73. I try very hard to maintain the confidence of my sources by speaking candidly with them, honoring agreements about the use of our conversation, and practicing journalism in an honest and straightforward way.
John Harwood
#74. It is important for me to truly understand the people I am portraying and their struggles, in order to give an honest performance.
Jake T. Austin
#75. I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.
Vicente Fox
#76. Of all men, Christians should work especially hard, giving more than an honest day's work for a day's wage.
Richard D. Phillips
#77. A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.
Voltaire
#78. If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.
Martin Sheen
#79. [P]ersonally, I know I'd prefer to read an honest review by someone who has no reason to lie, than a book reviewer who has an employer and a publishing house to keep happy.
Catherine Ryan Howard
#80. An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
William Shakespeare
#81. The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.
Ron Carlson
#82. When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.
Richard M. Nixon
#84. We play your part in order to understand you, but you each seem to play a thousand parts. It makes things difficult for an honest, hard-working bug-eyed monster.
Larry Niven
#85. We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#86. The devoutest person could have rendered no greater homage to the efficacy of an honest prayer than he did in this distrust of his wife. It was as if a professed unbeliever in ghosts should be frightened by a ghost story.
Charles Dickens
#87. I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.
Otto Von Bismarck
#88. The value of a gift is much enhanced by sparing an honest man the misery of asking for it with confusion and blushes.
Anonymous
#90. I am overwhelmed with gratitude, and my heart is full. 'American Sniper' has broken records, which follows such an honest path of Chris's life.
Taya Kyle
#91. Oh, God, oh, God. A sense of humor. She'd thought the hardly-even-a-hint she'd caught of it a while back had been a one-off thing, but that was a joke he'd just made. An honest-to-God joke! She wanted to have his baby.
Susan Andersen
#92. Autumn is an honest month; it does not delude man like spring does! It shows him the dark face of life, the tragedy, the rot, the separation, the sadness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#93. The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.
John Ciardi
#94. We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?
Jessamyn West
#95. But Cora said all people bury what it is they fear
so it cannot hurt them. So it is kept from them, locked up in the earth or in the sea.
Does it work? I asked her. Burying a feared thing?
She pursed her lips. Maybe. If it done justly, and with an honest, hopeful heart ...
Susan Fletcher
#96. And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Benjamin Franklin
#97. A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir.
Tony Blankley
#99. You have to be OK with your own fears. If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but that's when the most interesting things happen.
Kristen Stewart
#100. Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.
Robert Green Ingersoll
