Straightforward And Honest Quotes

#1. The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. We welcome the scrutiny of the world - because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

Barack Obama

#3. From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.

Luke Bryan

#4. If you're honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable.

Marcus Aurelius

#5. Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.

Erin Pizzey

#6. The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed.

Joel Achenbach

#7. Children become what they are told they are.

Dorothy DeLay

#8. The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you're up to.

George Hammond

#9. Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.

Ferdinand Lassalle

#10. My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

Rob Bell

#11. Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John F. Lehman Jr.

#12. I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.

Jessica Warman

#13. The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free.

Milton H. Erickson

#14. If you don't sell, it's not the product that's wrong, it's you.

Estee Lauder

#15. Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man.

Robert Wagner

#16. Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"
"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#17. You said a bad driver is only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person. I thought it was your secret pride.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#18. Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.

Laurence Overmire

#19. 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

#20. The public is very forgiving. So we're not trying to obtain some level of perfection that can't be obtained. But if you're straightforward and honest and your constituents trust you, they'll help you get through the times when you fall short.

John Shimkus

#21. I've made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous in the face of peril, honest and straightforward.

Geraldo Rivera

#22. That was the dangerous thing about dreams-how quicly you became tangled in it all. People naturally let their guard down when they slept.

Alexandra Bracken

#23. I believe in treating other people with respect. My style is to speak to people, be available to them and willing to answer their questions. This also means being straightforward and honest with them.

Sanford I. Weill

#24. If the Lord says to give more than you think you are able to give, know that He will provide for you. Whether things are sailing smoothly or the bottom has dropped out, He is always trustworthy. You can count on Almighty God to keep His everlasting Word.

Charles Stanley

#25. -You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to ... -To lay her cards out on the table.

Tennessee Williams

#26. When you read the book you see that these guys aren't holding any punches. They're straightforward. They're honest. They're giving you their honest opinion.

Charles Barkley

#27. I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.

Simon Baker