The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

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

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.