Honest Quotes

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

Henry Wotton

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Hunter S. Thompson

I do not say words, which you want to hear.The words just told me, to write them down.

Toba Beta

As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.

Criss Jami

Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.

Criss Jami

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.

Criss Jami

It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.

Criss Jami

A statement of truth, and that is:Everything I have accomplished is Thanks to the Lord above, and without him my success would have been impossible.

Felicia Martin

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.?

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was pinging between us, hovering above the weeds.

Sonya Hartnett

It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

Criss Jami

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.

Mike Norton

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.

Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom mitigates the risk of being honest.

Toba Beta

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Leo Tolstoy

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson