Truthful Quotes - Page 12

• If you lack vulnerability then you are not being truthful to yourself.

  Benjamin Stone

  Being Truthful, Ifs, Vulnerability

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Animal, Humanity, Vegan

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• While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

  Virginia Woolf

  Humility, Dark, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.447, Wordsworth Editions

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• But this time I'm not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really truthful. I am a little to blame. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.

  E. M. Forster

  Believe, Book, Blue

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.407, Delphi Classics

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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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• TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dumb, Illiterate

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.372, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate. Don't settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you think. What you feel.

  Kate Morton

  Writing, Thinking, Two

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't without beginning it 'Dear Sylvia' and ending it 'Yours sincerely' or 'truly' or 'affectionately.' He's that sort of precise imbecile. I tell you he's so formal he can't do without all the conventions there are and so truthful he can't use half of them.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Writing, Use, Half

  Ford Madox Ford (2012). “Parade's End”, p.34, Vintage

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• Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

  Rob Lowe

  Fake, Trump, Turmoil

  Rob Lowe (2011). “Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography”, p.58, Macmillan

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• I'm drunk but truthful.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Drunk

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• The more truthful I am with myself and others, the more my conscience is clear and tranquil. Thus, I can more thoroughly and unequivocally inhabit the present moment and accept everything that happens without fear, knowing that what goes around comes around (the law of karma). Ethical morality and self-discipline represent the good ground, or stable basis. Mindful awareness is the skillful and efficacious grow-path, or way. Wisdom and compassion constitute the fruit, or result. This is the essence of Buddhism [...]

  Surya Das

  Karma, Buddhism, Compassion

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• Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.

  Margery Williams

  Hurt, Horse, Children

  The Velveteen Rabbit (1922)

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• I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.

  Kurt Cobain

  Thinking, Boring, Enough

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• Drosophila,” I said, remembering the word. “What?” Lily asked. “Why do girls always fall for guys with the at ention span of drosophila?” “What?” “Fruit flies. Guys with the attention span of fruit flies.” “Because they’re hot?” “This,” I told her, “is not the time for being truthful.

  Rachel Cohn

  Girl, Fall, Fruit Flies

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• Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Eye, Thinking, People

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• Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Honest, Autobiography

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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• and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Serious Things, Found

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• He pulled her back, off balance so that she fell against him, and he took her face in his two hands and held it very still while his eyes looked down into hers. Somber, truthful, painfully honest. "I love you, Chloe," he said. "Which is the most dangerous thing I could do.

  Anne Stuart

  Love You, Eye, Hands

  Anne Stuart (2005). “Black Ice”, Mira Books

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• If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.

  Amy Carmichael

  Children, Growing Up, Parenting

  Amy Carmichael (2002). “Gold Cord: The Story of a Fellowship”, p.10, CLC Publications

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• Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word 'emotion' stands for energy in motion. Be truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Real, Inspire

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.57, Robert Kiyosaki

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• A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Liars, Lying, Eye

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• The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Want Something, White, Would Be

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• To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of us will meet a different harbinger of personal failure, some innocent genius chosen by us for reasons having to do with what we see as our own inadequacies. The only remedy to this I have found is to read a writer whose work is entirely different from another, though not necessarily more like your own—a difference that will remind you of how many rooms there are in the house of art.

  Francine Prose

  Art, Light, Differences

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• Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Army, Order

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• I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not care about other people's opinions. She taught me to be truthful. She taught me to be free. I began to live my life in love and complete acceptance. For the first time I had truly accepted myself.

  Portia de Rossi

  Acceptance, Helping Others, Diversity

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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