#honesty

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#integrity #politics #art

The human body is the best work of art. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#beauty #body #body-image #dancer #desire

No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think. ↗

— Sherwood Smith

#love #relationships #beauty

Bullshit makes the flowers grow and that is beautiful ↗

— Malaclypse the Younger

#lie #lies #beauty

If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether. ↗

— Neil Postman

#disinformation #facade #falsities #politics #show-business

There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans. ↗

— Wynonna Judd

#country music #experience #fans #honesty #human

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition. ↗

— Freeman Thomas

#begins #collaboration #comes #design #good

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#falseness #harm #honesty #hurt #i

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#honesty #intellect #intellect

Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#lies #life