Saying The Truth Quotes - Page 2

• If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

  Jesse Ventura

  Inspirational, Memories, Truth

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• Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Truth, Honesty

  "The Critic as Artist". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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• Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Truth, Children, Lying

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• The truth is more important than the facts.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Wise, Witty, Truth

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2014). “Letters to Architects”, p.170, Elsevier

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• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

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  Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Clever

  "Contarini Fleming". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, 1832.

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• The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

  James A. Garfield

  Teacher, Encouragement, Strong Women

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• Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Truth, Intelligent, Greatness

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• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

  Stephen King

  Trust, Liars, Lying

  Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Life, Relationship

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth

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

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hurt

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.

  Isa Blagden

  Truth, Lying, Interesting

  "The crown of a life". Book by Isa Blagden, 1869.

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• Personally, I never believe an artist saying "I do it for myself" is saying the truth, because why would you go through the trouble of making something that goes out into the world if you didn't care about somebody else seeing it? It's like the difference between those who choose "more comfortably termed entertainment" versus what people think of as the "art life," which is supposedly more monastic or spiritual. I don't believe in those distinctions.

  Eric Fischl

  Spiritual, Art, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.

  Henry Miller

  Believe, Cold, Coming Out

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

  Mel Brooks

  Inspiring, Funny Inspirational, Truth

  Quoted in John Robert Columbo, Popcorn in Paradise (1980)

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• Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

  Lillian Hellman

  Love, Wisdom, Truth

  The Little Foxes (1939) act 1

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• There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about hearing the truth said. There is something so intimate about sharing the truth, even if you are not entirely sure what it means.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Hearing, Intimate

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.17, Egmont UK

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• History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Truth, People, Stories

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