This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

Maturity is when you’re able to say, ‘It’s not just them. It’s me.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.

Integrity is the integument that makes intelligence more acceptable

True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask...

Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.

I love your body ’cause I’ve lost my mind If you want someone to talk to, you’re wasting your time If you want someone to share your life, you need someone who’s alive And if...

As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it’s honest enough for me.-Captain Tagon

Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.

The things that make you a functional citizen in society – manners, discretion, cordiality – don’t necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels...

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don’t need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.

[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we’re good with our mouths too…(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)

You can say no if that is more truthful than a resentful yes.

I’m not mean, I’m honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.

Apakah orang yang benar-benar ikhlas sempat berasa tertindas ketika membuat kebaikan yang tidak dibalas?

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don’t understand something

If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of...

You surely remember your past when you rebuke me in honesty.

Labākais veikals ir godīgums.

Craigengelt, you are either an honest fellow in right good earnest, and I scarce know how to believe that; or you are cleverer than I took you for, and I scarce know how to believe...

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

I suppose if we gain anything from this unsought experience it will be an appreciation for honesty- frankness on the part of our politicians, our friends, our loves, ourselves. No more liars in public places....

Suppose after all that death does end all. Next to eternal joy, next to being forever with those we love and those who have loved us, next to that, is to be wrapt in the...

You want to take me to a movie?” I asked. “Well, not really,” he said. “What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.

Don’t force your gifts: if you are a rascal, live like one; if you are half honest, be half honest; if you are completely honest, live absolutely honestly.

The smart employer looks not for perfection but for an explanation of how the consequences of a dishonorable act affected the candidate and others.

No one is perfect. We all need a Savior. The more honest we become about our flaws, the more we’ll reach out for the grace and love of Jesus.

It’s always going to be easy to live like others or other’s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.

I’m fully aware that some of the stuff I write is going to offend people or p*ss them off. They should be fully aware that I don’t really care.

You never know who you’re inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.

Guard your heart and mind against double-minded pretentious beings. Do not allow infiltration beyond the surface. If their influence travels on the inside, they become like an incurable disease.

Embrace the magical gift of serenity in your daily life. Nothing beats patience, humility, honesty and tranquility.

He was a man more concerned with the truth than his arrest quota, a philosophy that would often have him skate on thin ice with the higher ups.

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public...

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

When we are honest about the limitations we are self imposing it becomes necessary to cry out with determination and state you’ve had enough of the mediocrity of stagnation.

We have come to a point in time where using common sense, speaking factual truths and asking honest questions have been deemed radical behavior. While in turn, manipulation, thoughtlessness and dishonesty is often rewarded and...

No one, by swearing, makes themselves an ounce more honest; any more than a man makes himself wealthy by counting his gold. Oaths may make a liar a liar yet again, having lied about the...

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

to seek the truth, you must lie to a liar, & if they believe in your lie, they will tell you the truth.

If all the world spoke, acted, or kept silence with intent to deceive, –if dearest interests were at stake, and dearest lives in peril, –if no one should ever know of her truth or her...

Lies can bring you fortune but the truth brings you peace

But we need to pray daily for humility and honesty to see these sinful attitudes for that they really are, and then for grace and discipline to root them out of our minds and replace...

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

This love of money is the curse of American, and for the sake of it men will sell honor and honesty, till we don’t know whom to trust, and it is only a genius like...

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

Seit wir den Glauben und damit die Wahrheit verloren haben, liegt zwischen Heuchelei und Ehrlichkeit der letzte Unterschied, der uns bleibt.

The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

I have been lately introduced to the famous Thomas Paine, and like him very well. He is vain beyond all belief, but he has reason to be vain, and for my part I forgive him....