Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

I don’t bluff, but I do act with realism.

The words of truth are simple.

I feel like when you just say what the truth is, you can't really comment more than that.

Simple is the language of truth.

I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward.

I say what I think and I think what I say.

I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

When somebody asks me a question, I try to be as straightforward about it as possible. I try not to overthink what I'm going to say in an interview.

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

I do everything in a straightforward manner.

Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.

The thing that shocks people... is that I mean what I say. I don't use hyperbole.

I'm saying to you that one of the great characteristics of the great American, the American people, is our historic ability to be straightforward, plainspoken, say what we mean, and mean what we say.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

Simple is the speech of truth.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

Don't bullshit' just play.

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

Say only what you mean.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.