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There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness. -- Frank Ocean
Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you. -- Thomas Kretschmann
You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you. -- Scott Bakula
All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about. -- Nigel Kneale
The good I stand on is my truth and honesty. -- William Shakespeare
Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity. -- Hans F. Sennholz
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
My love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned. -- Richard Dawkins
It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base. -- Charles Lindbergh
Wherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is demonstrably true. Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insi -- Hans F. Sennholz
Sometimes I'm not so sure how healthy it is because it's exhausting to put all your emotion into your work, but I guess I should be thankful for that. I don't want the work to be about anything else but the truth and honesty. -- Jose Parla
[Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power, or of trade, which the doctrine of Faith cannot down-weigh. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm always going for truth and honesty. -- Jill Soloway
I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned. -- Richard Dawkins
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters. -- J. G. Ballard
My theory is the root of a country artist is truth and honesty. For me, I look at Sam Hunt. The truth and the honest thing is we have southern roots, we were raised in a southern way, but we listen to Drake and other stuff, too. -- Kelsea Ballerini
Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. -- Abu Bakr
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. -- Spencer Johnson
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. -- William Hazlitt
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart. -- Phillips Brooks
A solid base for any comedy is just honesty and truth, and it coming from a real place. As surreal as this show gets and is, ultimately, we're dealing with a character that most can't see the way that I can see it. -- Elijah Wood
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. -- J. G. Ballard
Economic and financial conversion is actually attainable, thanks to this principle of truth and honesty. -- Sunday Adelaja
When truth and honesty is absent in the nation, it relates not just to the politicians. -- Sunday Adelaja
Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth. -- David Whyte
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. -- James E. Faust
All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves. -- iO Tillett Wright
When the economy of a country is based fundamentally on the principles of truth and honesty, that nation experiences economic stability. -- Sunday Adelaja
When truth and honesty is successfully intertwined into the business world of a nation, the result is a boost in commerce. -- Sunday Adelaja
The key challenge facing us today is to successfully transmit into daily and everyday lifestyle the principle of truth and honesty. -- Sunday Adelaja
Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth. -- Barry Eisler
If a country successfully translate the principles of truth and honesty into their social life, then that country experiences peace, tranquillity and serenity. -- Sunday Adelaja
True development only comes when the principles of truth and honesty have been successfully transmitted into the daily and everyday lifestyle of the people. -- Sunday Adelaja
If you see any country that is advanced and developed today, it is because that society is fundamentally based on principles of truth and honesty. -- Sunday Adelaja
If a country successfully translate the principles of truth and honesty into their social life, social issues and problems are resolved in a civilized manner. -- Sunday Adelaja
A country cannot change, be transformed or developed as long as there is no truth and honesty as an everyday principle among the citizens of the nation. -- Sunday Adelaja
Wealth will always find their way out of societies where truth and honesty are not established into the societies where there are principles of honesty and truth. -- Sunday Adelaja
Wealth will always find a way of escaping from societies without an established system of truth and honesty, into societies that are well established in truth and honesty. -- Sunday Adelaja
An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy. -- Boris Becker
Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness. -- David Whyte
It is possible to have a rather tranquil political atmosphere in any given nation. The secret is to put truth and honesty as the foundation of the political structure in that nation. -- Sunday Adelaja
We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences. -- Dan Ariely
If we in Nigeria and Africa generally are to experience a true national transformation, there must be numerous movements championing the cause for truth and honesty in every aspect of our daily affairs. -- Sunday Adelaja
One of the secrets a nation can unlock to have material wealth is, having a leader who will take an uncompromising stand to establish truth and honesty as a rule of building the nation -- Sunday Adelaja
I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don't connect with you if you're not honest. -- Neil Strauss
We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square. -- Michelle Obama
I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I've always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you. -- Rohit Shetty
I believe that without strict enforcement of penalties for any offence violating the principles of truth and honesty, Nigeria and Africa will not be able to move from our present state of underdevelopment into civilization. -- Sunday Adelaja
My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure. -- Brian Blessed
Nigeria is a country with abundance of wealth, but because of lack of truth and integrity, the wealth are stolen, but the paradox of the whole thing is, this stolen wealth always find their way to nations with no apparent natural wealth, but with a high credit of degree of truth and honesty. -- Sunday Adelaja
Honesty is not synonymous with truth. -- Vera Farmiga
Truth may be unattainable, but honesty is not. -- Stephen Watson
Somehow there is a certain honesty underground, a certain truth, -- Christophe Agou
I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty. -- Colum McCann
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. -- Adrienne Rich
There is a possibility of economic growth through honesty and truth. -- Sunday Adelaja
Your gift to God is honesty. God's gift to you is truth. -- Leonard Jacobson
Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere -- Patrick Rothfuss
National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty -- Sunday Adelaja
When you walk a life of honesty, you live a life of truth. -- Therese Benedict
Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people. -- August Sander
Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth. -- Ken Blanchard
Truth and Honesty: this principle could bring about healing and harmony in any nation. -- Sunday Adelaja
Truth and honesty are some of the most powerful principles to developing a nation. -- Sunday Adelaja
There is no love without respect.There isn't much truth if spoken without genuine honesty. -- Alexandra Elle
Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth. -- Norman Mailer
People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it. -- Kinky Friedman
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. -- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. -- Gail Caldwell
My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another. -- Ezra Miller
Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love. -- bell hooks
Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others. -- Dalai Lama
Truth is a fundamental principle that is needed for any form of building or construction. So also is honesty. -- Sunday Adelaja
I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me. -- Alison Krauss
Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying. -- Fred Rogers
Truth is not a mystery - its greatest secrets are yours to know through simple honesty and surrender to what that honesty reveals. -- John de Ruiter
What will you tell him?""The truth."Fortismer thinks about that."Yes," he says at last. "Probably the best thing. Bloody deceptive, honesty. -- Nick Harkaway
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth. -- H. L. Mencken
Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life. -- Brad Blanton
Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy. -- Ian Mckellen
Truth, honesty, perseverance, strength, love of all kinds and forgiveness are all beautiful, Tack. The most beautiful stories ever told are the most difficult to take. -- Kristen Ashley
I scrutinized his face for honesty and then looked away. He was either a lunatic, a really good liar, or he was actually telling the truth. -- Amy Astorga
I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story. -- Charles de Lint
The reality is, if you're friends with somebody you should be able to be honest with them, and that honesty should be the biggest magnet to truth. -- Justin Vernon
An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on). -- Paul Feyerabend
Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart. -- Clement Greenberg
The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts. -- Henry Adams
One of the principal qualities that you need as national security adviser is trust, the trust of the president. And that depends on truth and it depends on honesty. -- Leon Panetta
The truth therefore is that great nations become great not because of their amount of wealth an Great nations become great thanks to their wealth of truth, honesty and other virtues the natural resources. -- Sunday Adelaja

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