#honest

I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem. ↗

— Robert Guillaume

#blamed #considered #felt #honestly #humanity

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#answers #anxiety #away #disturbing #honest

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. ↗

— Merry Browne

#elegance #honesty #needs

Not really interested in covering other bands songs to be honest. ↗

— Michael Reed

#covering #honest #interested #other #really

Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#been #continue #field #honest #hostility

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble. ↗

— Hugh Prather

#am #any #automatically #difficulty #face

I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be men fated to be governed by the opinions of their century, their country, and their society. For that very reason, a freethinker or philosopher today would have been nothing but a fanatic at the time of the League.* One must not write for such readers, if one wishes to live beyond one’s own age. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#honesty #opinion #time #truth #age

No matter what you say, or how much you talk, someone isn’t really forgiven until you can stand beside them without wanting to slap them in the face. ↗

— Alan Heathcock

#forgiveness #hate #honesty #letting-go #revenge

Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#honesty #anger

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts. ↗

— Mark Twain

#mark-twain #art