Being Truthful Quotes - Page 3

• Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Truthful, Please, Benevolent

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To be truthful i am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and laughter, the comfort of friendship, but enduring happiness? If it exists i have not found it

  David Gemmell

  Laughter, Mean, People

  David Gemmell (2005). “Lord of the Silver Bow”, Bantam Press

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• When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

  Roald Dahl

  Writing, Important, Modesty

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.41, Penguin

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• There is no merit in being truthful when one is truthful by nature, or rather when one can be nothing else; it is a gift, like poetry or music. But it needs courage to be truthful after carefully considering the matter, unless a kind of pride is involved; for example, the man who says to himself, "I am ugly," and then says, "I am ugly" to his friends, lest they should think themselves the first to make the discovery.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Pride, Men, Thinking

  "The Journal of Eugene Delacroix: A Selection". Book edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton, Cornell University Press, June 6, 1824 (p. 45), 1980.

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• Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Character, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• After you read the script, then you actually just have to be in the moment you're in, in order to make it believable. You can't give it away. You can't tip it off. For me, it's always about being truthful in the moment I'm in. Hopefully, being able to reveal what I'm feeling, you have to believe it.

  Victor Garber

  Believe, Order, Giving

  "Victor Garber Talks BIG GAME, LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, THE FLASH, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 29, 2015.

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• Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.

  Aristotle

  Honesty, Men, Excellence

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• We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

  Henry Cisneros

  Dirty, Racism, Secret

  1993 In US News and World Report, 19 Apr.

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• Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

  Steve Coogan

  Reality, Thinking, Comedy

  "Exclusive Interview: Steve Coogan". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 19, 2009.

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• You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them, it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best.

  Serj Tankian

  Artist, Thinking, Musician

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

  Elie Wiesel

  Honest, Truthful, Memoir

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• I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Want, Sake, Truthful

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• I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

  Spike Lee

  Thinking, Doctors, Important

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• I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.

  Eddie Izzard

  Mean, Comedian, Acting

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• To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.

  Vanilla Ice

  White, People, Records

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• You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

  Renny Harlin

  Imagination, Individuality, Want

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• All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.

  Wilfred Owen

  Truth, Today, Poet

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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• I think we get on with living our lives like everybody else does. Where we're at in music is trying to explain what's going around us either directly or by analogy and trying to create a parallel, an analog, sometimes musical, sometimes dramatic, that might be truthful.

  Andy Gill

  Thinking, Musical, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.

  Geri Halliwell

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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• I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am." His thumb stroked her cheek. "I would never hurt you." "I don't think you can promise me that." She squeezed his bruised fingers. "But it makes things a bit more equal, to know that I can hurt you, too." His gaze fell to her lips. He said simply, without any trace of irony, "You are killing me.

  Tessa Dare

  Hurt, Thinking, Promise

  Tessa Dare (2010). “One Dance with a Duke”, p.213, Ballantine Books

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• All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Communication, Race, Intellectual

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances.

  Lauren Graham

  Mean, Truthful, Given

  Lauren Graham (2013). “Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel”, p.164, Ballantine Books

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• In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Anger, Passion, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.362, Jaico Publishing House

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• To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.

  Colin Montgomerie

  Golf, Thinking, Guilt

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• I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

  Bela Lugosi

  Important, Truthful, Paychecks

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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