Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 17

• A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the truth that she discovers is profoundly political.

  Dacia Maraini

  Political, Firsts, Witness

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.

  Mario Bunge

  Liars, Hypocrite, Joining

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• I think what makes us human is those choices - whether to tell the truth or not.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, Choices, Humans

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• The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Trying, Fiction

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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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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• Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

  Samuel Butler

  Wisdom, Truth, Lying

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.377, The Floating Press

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• I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.

  Bob Graham

  War, Successful, Iraq

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• Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It’s mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It’s about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Real, People

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.17, SPCK

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• This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

  Lee Grant

  Giving, Way, Dignity

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• Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood - for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.

  Graham Greene

  Running, Memories, Book

  "The Ministry of Fear". Book by Graham Greene. Book 1, Chapter 7, Section 1, 1943.

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• I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.

  Joe Walsh

  Song, Peace, Sorry

  Song: Song For A Dying Planet, Album: Songs for a Dying Planet, 1992

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• Writing has to do with truth-telling. When you're writing, let's say, an essay for a magazine, you try to tell the truth at every moment. You do your best to quote people accurately and get everything right. Writing a novel is a break from that: freedom. When you're writing a novel, you are in charge; you can beef things up.

  Nicholson Baker

  Writing, People, Trying

  "Nicholson Baker Navigates The Buffet" by Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2013.

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• You can't build a future if you do not know who you are. You can't become who you are meant to be if you can't tell the truth about who you are, what you have, and everything about your life. The truth is the absolute essence to your success, while lies are the absolute essence to your failures.

  Suze Orman

  Lying, Essence, Truth Is

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• The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Mean, Emotional

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• I'm appealing to voters by actually telling the truth.

  Kesha Rogers

  Voters

  "Interview: U.S. Senate candidate Kesha Rogers". Interview with Brett Wilkins, www.digitaljournal.com. May 22, 2014.

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• This is not a movie about smelling the urine! It's another kind of movie." Volker Schlöndorff got Billy Wilder to agree to these conversations - you can buy it - because Volker spoke German at times. And he said to Billy Wilder: "What is in your mind?" And he said: "If you're going to try to tell the truth to the audience, you'd better be funny or they'll kill you." And I haven't forgotten that.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Mind, Trying, Kind

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Liars, Lying, Opposites

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• Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Boxing, World, Truth Is

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• People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling.

  Alberta Hunter

  Thinking, People, Singing

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• Telling the truth without sensitivity can be a form of abuse.

  Frank Hall

  Abuse, Form, Sensitivity

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• I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.

  Dorothy Allison

  Needs, Way, Revolutionary

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• I think the rap community always tells the truth. And I think that it's important that we listen to their voices so we can have a roadmap, because artists - almost every single artist in hip-hop, they paint a picture of society that's overlooked. The misogyny, the racism, the violence, the homophobia, these are things that we try to avoid instead of dealing with. All of that I see it so often.

  Russell Simmons

  Rap, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Winning, Lawyer, Sometimes

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• Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.

  Edward Snowden

  Fighting, Matter, Citizens

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• Of course, I do not regret the Bond days. I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth, I have always hated guns and what they represent.

  Roger Moore

  Regret, Hero, Gun

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

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