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Quotes About Honesty

A clear conscience is due to a poor memory.
~ R.J. Newman
You are who you are what you say you are to people, but who are you when no one is watching?
~ Anonymous
Honesty is admired, and starves.
~ Juvenal, Satires, Book I
Even in the privacy of our own thoughts, we can't sow lies and reap truth.
~ Katina Ferguson
If you know something is an illusion, why pretend it is reality?
~ Lionel Suggs
No one can make you honest. Only your heart and mind can do that.
~ Debasish Mridha
Be true to your love to be true to yourself.
~ Debasish Mridha
WERE TRANSPARENCY EXISTS NOT!, THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM FOR FRUSTRATION AND DISASTER THEREIN
~ Kgosietsile Martin Timothy
Politicians will always be honest.To themselves!
~ Anthony T. Hincks
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
~ June Jordan
Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?
~ Eddie Van Halen
Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry.
~ Lucie Brock-Broido
I don't want to bury anything in poetry.
~ Sharon Van Etten
Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.
~ May Sarton
it is being honest about my painthat makes me invincible.
~ Nayyirah Waheed
Maybe the entire world is in love with you and I'm the only one brave enough to admit it.
~ Sean Glatch, 4:41
True poetry is embarrassing.
~ Julien Torma
I have a book of poetry I believe many should read but in each verse you'll discover it wasn't written for greed.
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.
~ Edward Hirsch
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
~ Mark Twain
When it becomes serious, you have to lie.
~ Jean-Claude Juncker
I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.
~ Ross Perot
I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.
~ Ratan Tata