Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 33

• When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Powerful, Lying, Party

  Orson Scott Card (2012). “Red Prophet: Tales of Alvin maker”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Television, Impossible

  1976 Christ and theMedia,'Questions following the 3rd lecture'.

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• What I respect about my dad is he comes forth and he tells the truth, and he's a very honorable person, I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart.

  Brooke Hogan

  Dad, Heart, Honorable

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The saying is, life is short, but what if it's not? But if life is short, is this how you would like to spend your last days? And if life is long, is this how you want to spend 50, 60, or 70 years? Being ashamed? Being quiet? Hoping no one notices you? Not telling the truth? Walking around heavy? If I die in my sleep tonight, God forbid, I am happy with how I've lived my life. I've lived it truthfully.

  Karrine Steffans

  Life Is Short, Sleep, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Lying, Eye, Tongue

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.71, Lulu.com

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• As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth - whatever the truth may be - that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.

  June Jordan

  Children, May, Taught

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.133, Basic Books

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• To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world.

  Bruce Lee

  World, Beats

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.33, Tuttle Publishing

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• Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.

  James Cagney

  Eye, Looks, Mark

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• It feels so good to tell the truth.

  Foxy Brown

  Feels

  "Foxy Brown 'all about telling the truth' to grand jury investigating felony charge in neighbor fight" by Dave Goldiner, www.nydailynews.com. August 11, 2010.

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• We writers  – and especially writers for children, but all writers –  have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were – to understand that truth is not in what happens but what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Lying, Writing

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.15, HarperCollins

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• Reagan believed the power of truth restated the world and re framed the world. I am a Reaganite. I'm proud to be a Reaganite. I will tell the truth, even if it's at the risk of causing some confusion sometimes with the timid.

  Newt Gingrich

  Confusion, Risk, World

  Newt Gingrich at GOP Primary debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, www.washingtonpost.com. December 10, 2011.

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• The secret of good writing is telling the truth.

  Gordon Lish

  Writing, Secret, Good Writing

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• Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues of God's people. Our virtues are truth-telling, kindness, forgiveness and yes, even anger-as long as it is the anger that is part of true love-through which we move closer to one another and to the God who has shown us how it is done.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Christian, Kindness, Nice

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• Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.

  William Rees-Mogg

  Lying, Government Lies, Gold

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• Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

  Christian Boltanski

  Art, Art Making, Felt

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• Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their triumph in a manner to grant accolades to themselves and heap blame upon their rivals. Ask yourself if part of the story is being withheld by design or ignorance.

  Kate Elliott

  Father, Ignorance, Design

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• We're constantly getting these messages to mind our own business and look the other way if we want to be well liked, to not tell the truth or speak our mind or say anything too intense. Well, I'm telling you here that this approach not only makes you party to other people's crimes against themselves but is a prescription for mediocrity and delusion

  Kelly Cutrone

  Party, People, Mind

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• What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

  Jane Wiedlin

  Scary, Scare, Truthful

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 27, 2011.

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• We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

  Seneca the Younger

  God, Truth, Want

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter XCV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1925.

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• I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.

  Orson Scott Card

  Selling

  Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.281, Macmillan

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• Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Taxes, Raises

  "A Good Man’s Good Fights" by Joel K. Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2010.

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• An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hero, Dark, Artist

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• To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

  William Steig

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Lying, Self, Portraiture

  "Ingmar's self portrait" by Ingmar Bergman, 1957.

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• Telling the truth is always revolutionary

  Antonio Gramsci

  Revolutionary, Truth Is

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