36 quotes
“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”
— Thomas Paine
“True friends stab you in the front.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.”
— Plato
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestly”
— Pema Chodron
“An artist should not lie to himself or others”
— Marina Abramovic
“The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses but proclaims his debts.”
— Seneca
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.”
— George Washington
“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.”
— Paul Gauguin
“Whoever does not know the truth is simply a fool yet whoever knows the truth and calls it a lie is a criminal”
— Gustav Klimt
“The art of governing consists simply of being honest.”
“The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.”
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies but just as much to stand up to our friends”
— J.K. Rowling
“Above all do not lie to yourself or to your family members. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth.”
— Dostoevsky
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently”
“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”
— Buddha
“No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.”
— John Stuart Mill
“The heartbeat of racism is denial the heartbeat of antiracism is confession”
— Ibram X. Kendi
“If a path to the better there be it begins with a full look at the worst”
— Thomas Hardy
“A thousand-mile journey begins with a single step, and a life of purpose begins with a single honest thought.”
— Unknown
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves and to others is to remain ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestly.”
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
— Flannery OConnor
“He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.”
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
“Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.”
“To be an artist means never to avert ones eyes”
— Akira Kurosawa
“I do not need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better”
— Plutarch
“A true friend stabs you in the front.”
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and kindly”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
— James Baldwin
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool”
— Richard Feynman
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestly”
“The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.”
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
“We do not what we ought, what we ought not we do, and lean upon the thought that chance will bring us through.”
— Matthew Arnold
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