Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 11

• I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or ministers or sociologists. A writer's job, is to, by way of fiction, somehow describe the way we live. And to me, this seems an important task, very worth doing, and I think also, to the reading public, it seems, even though they might not articulate it, it seems to them something worth doing also.

  John Updike

  Jobs, Reading, Thinking

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• I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.

  Fidel Castro

  Years, Doubt, Should

  "Hi, Fidel, this is Vicente, could I ask a favor of you?". Interview with Mexican President Vicente Fox compiled and translated by Achy Obejas, articles.chicagotribune.com. May 2, 2002.

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• I learned that telling the truth was a big part of loving yourself.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Loving Yourself, Loving You, Bigs

  Iyanla Vanzant (1999). “Yesterday, I Cried: Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• Publicity is the only thing some people fear. An aroused public opinion has been the cause of most reforms. Telling the truth is perhaps the pacifist's only weapon. Over and over again, even the suggestion that one may publish the facts has changed a scornful, bullying opponent into an almost subservient helper. But how dangerous it is!

  Muriel Lester

  Bullying, People, Suggestions

  Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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• I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .

  Frances Hardinge

  Hated, Locked

  Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.291, Pan Macmillan

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• I think I'd rather tell the truth and say what I believe in and make people unhappy than sort of pretend to think something else to accommodate them and try to be liked. That's just the way it goes and I don't think I'm any great champion of anything, but if they're going to put me on a show, I'm going to say what I think.

  Ben Affleck

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Ben Affleck speech before the 2nd Annual Save the Children Illumination Gala, www.dailymail.co.uk. November, 2014.

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• People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.

  Eric Idle

  Lying, People

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• For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.

  Taylor Schilling

  Being Yourself, Actors, World

  "Daring Talk: Orange is the New Black". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 22, 2013.

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• Everything you want to know about a fighter is in his eyes. The look in his eyes tells the truth.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Eye, Looks, Want

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• Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

  Subhash Kak

  Animal, Men, Acting

  "The Prajna-sutras: Aphorisms of Intuition". Book by Subhash Kak, 2007.

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• Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. A few stirred-up women brought about women's voting. The Populist movement, the Progressive movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement - the examples go on and on of 'little people' getting together and telling the truth about their lives. They made our government act.

  Unita Blackwell

  War, Writing, Government

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• The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Confession, Ends, Oneself

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• I tell the truth through music. Other people tend to catch on and agree with my truth and it turns out we are all really similar.

  SZA

  People, Turns, Agree

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• A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Wife, Chance, Politician

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Atheism, Theology

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1904). “The Philistine”

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• Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls I can say yes, and be telling the truth for once.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, Nice, Fall

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.51, Penguin

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• Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience, This is my act. Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

  Lenny Bruce

  Lying, Next Week, Comedian

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• To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.

  Roman Abramovich

  Children, Differences, Childhood

  "Inside the hidden world of Roman's empire". Interview with David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2006.

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• In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

  Julian Barnes

  Art, Order, Different

  Julian Barnes, Vanessa Guignery, Ryan Roberts (2009). “Conversations with Julian Barnes”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Enemy

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• Rules for a White House Spokesman: No. 1 is always tell the truth. I've got only one currency, that's the truth. There are 10,000 ways to say "no comment," and I've used 9,999 of them. The second rule is don't be afraid to say, "I don't know." You may look dumb, but if you don't know you can't give them hot air because it always shows on your face.

  Larry Speakes

  White, Air, Giving

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• You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.

  James Earl Jones

  Ideas, Singing, Church

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• If we keep this question in mind while planning our days, we will see that we actually have countless opportunities to add to our life force. Being around people and places we love and doing things that give us deep satisfaction, taking time to digest the events in our lives, being less busy, telling the truth, laughing a lot, eating right, exercising regularly, having long talks with those we love-these are among the best ways to nourish our vitality. Our life force thrives when we are completely engaged in the present moment.

  Debbie Ford

  Exercise, Power, Opportunity

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• It takes few words to tell the truth.

  Chief Joseph

  Truth, Few Words

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• My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Assignments

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