#honest

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#cynicism #engage #honestly #simply

Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#insanity #mental-health #psychiatrist #sanity #art

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being. ↗

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

#balance #being #brave #crucial #enough

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#among #anxious #business #dealings #do the right thing

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#almost #any #himself #honest #others

Is Abundant Success in all his honest undertakings. ↗

— George Morgan

#his #honest #success #undertakings

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#because #become #cannot #changing #climate

It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

#because #believe #characters #could #emotional

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#adult #adult life #been #certainly #convinced

I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family. ↗

— Sally Pearson

#because #bother #call #dad #different