"Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality."
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"[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary."
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"I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions."
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"Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them."
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"Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends."
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"I believe we may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any means of purchase. I may further say that I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches."
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"I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it."
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"I hope my kids understand that they're not operating in a normal world. And yet there are principles they have to adhere to that are normal - like decency, choosing between right and wrong, and honesty. That's important stuff, whether you're flying first-class or not."
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"I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to."
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"To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign of uncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom."
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"Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness."
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"If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying what they would like the results to have been—and finally—an important thing—the intelligence to interpret the results."
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"Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable."
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"Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine."
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"Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest."
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"The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art."
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"A lot of people have said that I'm super-snarky and mean. But honesty is the only way to get people to change. It's very important to be constructively critical - give people alternatives and you're giving them a new way to see themselves."
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"To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy."
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"Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet."
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"Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect."
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