Without intellectual honesty, you can't have a culture that's willing to tolerate failure. — Jensen Huang
The pursuit of knowledge requires intellectual rigor and a willingness to confront uncomfortable truths. — Bret Weinstein
The pursuit of truth requires intellectual courage and a willingness to question everything. — Bret Weinstein
Real progress requires intellectual humility and a willingness to examine one's own beliefs. — Bret Weinstein
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. — Imre Lakatos
It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true. — Bertrand Russell
Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life. — John Galsworthy
The willingness to listen to opposing views is a sign of intellectual maturity. — Bret Weinstein
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy. — Robert E. Lee
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue. — Bell Hooks
One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others — Bruce Lee
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. — Noam Chomsky
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. — Sigmund Freud
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. — Spencer Johnson
Embracing complexity and nuance should be the foundation of any intellectual pursuit. — Bret Weinstein
Honesty Quotes
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth. — William Faulkner
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones — John Lennon
Do the right thing because it is right. — Immanuel Kant
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. — Franz Kafka
Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity.
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. — Baron de Montesquieu
I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face. — Abdul Kalam
Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide. — Zig Ziglar
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. — Ernest Hemingway
Who lies for you will lie against you. — John Locke
Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others. — Charles R. Swindoll
Speak with honesty, think with sincerity, act with integrity.
People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach. — David A. Bednar
To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training. To me a dog is a teacher of life, who teaches us the principles of the most important moral values; honesty, integrity, loyalty, trust, respect and love. — Cesar Millan
The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity. — Brian Tracy
Respect is earned, Honesty is appreciated, Love is gained and Loyalty is returned.
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory! — Mark Twain
Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity. — Zig Ziglar
Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. — Dennis Prager
Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty. — Howard Cosell
Honesty Is A Virtue Quotes
Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice. — Molly Ivins
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business. — Leo Tolstoy
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred. — Daniel Berrigan
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often. — Judith Martin
Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is poverty of spirit the chief amongst virtues, that Jesus gives it prime place in his teachings? Is it even a virtue at all? Surely not. Manliness of spirit, honesty of spirit, fullness of rightful purpose, these are virtues; poverty of spirit is a crime. — Charles Bradlaugh
I respect those who tell me the truth, no matter how hard it is.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky. — C. S. Lewis
The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough. — Gertrude Stein
Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless self-revelation, and the coolness that comes with authenticity. — Kevin DeYoung
Emotional Honesty Quotes
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think. — Marcel Proust
Always be honest with your feelings, and don't let stuff build up. — Joe Gatto
Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. — Paul Gray
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is. — Pink
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. — Ellen Perry
Lies don’t end relationships the truth does. — Shannon Alder
Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable. — Shannon Alder
I wish that we lived in a time and a generation where people would stop viewing my honesty as overly emotional. People always act like I spend my life crying in a dark room. I don't, I'm good. I'm a man. — Drake
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. — Ernest Hemingway
Dishonesty Quotes
We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it. — W. E. B. Du Bois
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction. — Fulton J. Sheen
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. — Abu Bakr
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency. — W. E. B. Du Bois
I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance. — Frank Zappa
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. — Plato
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. — Horace Mann
MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them. — Paul Ekman
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations. — George Crabbe
Self Honesty Quotes
Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches. — Sri Aurobindo
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed — Ayn Rand
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. — Abraham Lincoln
They are most cheated who cheat themselves. — Danish Proverbs
Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service. — Michael E. DeBakey
Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle. — Eric Zorn
Keep no secrets of thyself from thyself — Greek Proverbs
Before you can lie to another, you must first lie to yourself. — Naval Ravikant
Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time. — Dave Van Ronk
The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light of intellectual honesty. — Peter Wessel Zapffe
The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was here long before us and will be here long after us. The planet is running fine. What people are talking about is saving themselves and saving their middle-class lifestyles and saving their cash flow. — Lynn Margulis
The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind. — Isaiah Berlin
Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief. — Imre Lakatos
The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were. — Jack Welch
Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character. — Brian Tracy
Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement. — B. F. Skinner
The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument. — Sam Harris
To set aside one’s prejudices, one’s present needs, and one’s own self interest in making a decision as a director for a company is an intellectual exercise that takes constant practice. In short, intellectual honesty is a journey and not a destination. — Mervyn King
For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. — Arthur Peacocke
It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard. — Todd Burpo
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get. — Samuel Eliot Morison
In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research. — Richard J. Foster
Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. — Henry David Thoreau
I believe that the 21st century economy is an economy of people, not of factories. The intellectual factor has become increasingly important in the economy, which is why we are planning to focus on providing additional opportunities for people to realise their potential. — Vladimir Putin
Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty. — Moses Aaron Richardson
The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty. — Bertrand Russell
Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty. — Robert Kennedy
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get. — Samuel E. Morison
If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment. — Kurt Andersen
We must seek support in the moral values that have ensured the progress of our civilization. Honesty and hard work, responsibility and faith in our strength are bound to bring us success. There should be no place for despondency. The crisis can and must be fought by uniting our intellectual, spiritual and material resources. — Vladimir Putin
Conservative ideas are alive and dynamic, the result of a free and intellectually honest vision for the country. As long as conservatism is strong, the future of a strong America is assured. — Rush Limbaugh
I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again. I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike. The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you. — Genevieve Bujold
When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends. — George Orwell
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll
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