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Honesty Quotes
"Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress."
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"I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest."
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"Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble."
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"Semantics, Admiral. I'd appreciate an honest answer."I'd appreciate a multitude of honest answers, but I rarely expect to receive them. Miriam sighed; the verbal tete-a-tete was growing tiresome. Time to bring an end to it with, ironically, honesty."
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"Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare."
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"I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it."
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"There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them."
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"If there is an essence to this wordly life, then it is the basis of honesty [morality]. If you have little wealth but have honesty even then you will attain peace. And if you do not have honesty but lot of wealth even then restlessness will remain within."
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"Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon."
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"Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something.""Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?"I cringe and say, "Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?"..."Maybe you were cut out for Candor," he says, "because you're a terrible liar."
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"The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more."
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"There's hostility to lying, and there should be."
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"I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty."
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"I really believe that it is honesty about our imperfect selves that makes everyone do better and be better."
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"Once...Why...lie?...when...truth is...the easier path."
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"Why are you being so mean?'Friends tell friends the truth.'Yeah, but not to hurt. To help."
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"Your thoughts are transparent."
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"It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all."
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"Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate."
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"It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible."
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"Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live."
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"I was just trying to be a friend,' I said. 'But you weren't, Charlie. At those times, you weren't being his friend at all. Because you weren't honest with him."
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"I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either."
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"Honesty is one of the key elements to a great relationship. If you cannot be honest with your partner, stay single."
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"Still, one can be honest yet quite mistaken."
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"Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for."
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"A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty."
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"Everyman has the ability to lie but luckily not everyman has the ability to hide their lies masterly!"
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"Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true."
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