Top 1200 Intellectual Dishonesty Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

There's so much dishonesty with motherhood in general... The truth is it's just a lot of embarrassing, humiliating moments.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.

I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I'm independent, I'm not sure I qualify as an intellectual. Basically, I'm an old-fashioned amateur.

No matter how bad the truth is, it doesn't tear you apart inside like dishonesty.

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.

To set aside one’s prejudices, one’s present needs, and one’s own self interest in making a decision as a director for a company is an intellectual exercise that takes constant practice. In short, intellectual honesty is a journey and not a destination.

I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

Just being a normal person and having a social life involves a lot of dishonesty for me.

There is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.

There are people out there who don't see value in intellectual property, and so they're always going to have a problem if there are lawsuits involving intellectual property.

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.

On both sides of the Atlantic, politics has come to be dominated by vitriolic name-calling and pervasive dishonesty.

Some people in India want to increase corruption and dishonesty in the name of caste.

I am not a politician. I have often been approached in this regard, but I have always declined these sorts of offers. I view myself as an independent, critical intellectual, as someone who tries to stimulate thought on the left and the right, to encourage intellectual evolution.

Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.

People have become so weary of all the government and media dishonesty, the all-too-commonplace lying, that most Americans have stopped listening.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a precondition of any discussion, co-operation or movement toward an intellectual Renaissance. . . . They are not axioms, but until a man has proved them to himself and has accepted them, he is not fit for an intellectual discussion. These two principles are: a. that emotions are not tools of cognition; b. that no man has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others.

I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.

There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced spiritual and intellectual tenet.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

I can't handle dishonesty; I like integrity in people and for me, that's very important in a man.

Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of æsthetic-intellectual means of perception to remain unexercised which cannot but lead to a weakening of judgment.

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

I'm a guy who is easy to get along with, and I'll put up with a lot of things. But not dishonesty.

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

Dishonesty is like a boomerang. About the time you think all is well, it hits you in the back of the head.

Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage.

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.

Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Rhe language of politics is experienced by most as spin with the assumption of dishonesty.

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.

Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art.

We believe in cures; we're a quick-fix country, and we drive forward, and we eat up what we have extremely fast in terms of natural resources and also ideas and intellectual property. We're kind of wilfully stupid a lot of the time, anti-intellectual.

Gingrich is the "foremost intellectual" in the Republican party like Gene Simmons is the foremost intellectual in "Kiss".

Walk through Santa Monica and try to find somebody who knows a young man or woman who's in this war. Here, war is an intellectual concept. If you lose your son or daughter, it's no longer an intellectual matter.

Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.

I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections.

Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It's hard enough to communicate when you're telling the truth.

The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview.