Honesty Quotes

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

I think, as musicians, our music should be who we are. Sometimes it’s not – it’s someone else’s. All heartfelt music and all honest music, it’s who we are. Of course, our upbringing has everything to do with it.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

Off the liquor that’s when I’m the most honest.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

The function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.