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  • A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

    Life   Education   Truth  
    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.485, Courier Corporation
  • Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

    Hate   Character   Men  
  • American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.

    Truth   Lying   Simple  
    Testimony before a Congressional Committee, pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org. May 1963.
  • Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

  • I once asked Barbara Stanwyck the secret of acting. She said: 'Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made'.

    Writing   Fake   Secret  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Humility is all about being truthful and honest.

  • We, hijras, are not hypocrites. We live our sexuality openly, being truthful to our souls and our bodies. Science and doctors assigned something else to us when we were born - which they didn't have the authority to - but we choose what we are and we are very truthful about it.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • I think what saved me is me being honest. I think I somewhow had the courage to do something and say something that I knew would possibly end my career. Instead of making business more important I made my soul and my life more important. And I think by being truthful, and being honest, that saved me.

    Thinking   Careers   Soul  
  • Loyalty consists of many things, including being truthful with our friends. When you really disagree, you have to say so.

  • One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

  • I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.

    "It's No Secret - An interview with poet Nikki Giovanni". Interview with John Kryder, artvoice.com. April 3, 2008.
  • Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound of the explosion and the detonation of the bomb happen at the same time - if they're putting the sound and the vision together in the same moment - they're going toward our cultural understanding of war, not the reality of war.

  • Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!

    Mistake   Cat   Thinking  
  • I really love to act. I really love to touch the people with my work. It's about giving people what they want to see. I love to see someone who's gonna be real, be truthful to his work and that's what I try to bring every time I step on a set. That's what I did for Tupac movie.

    Real   People   Giving  
    Source: www.ebony.com
  • I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

  • We all compromise ourselves, from time to time, because maybe it will lead to more opportunity...A ll of that’s cool, but we forget and we get caught up. If you want that nurturing, caring, empathetic, compassionate heart to keep on ticking and be around, and you want it to be strong, then don’t neglect #1. One way to feed it is just being truthful and listening to your heart.

    Strong   Heart   Caring  
    FaceBook post by Paul Walker from Dec 13, 2013
  • The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

    Life   Beautiful   Truth  
    Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.305, Courier Corporation
  • Kids tell me all the time, "I don't know how you do it, but that's us in the book." That's the kind of response you want, and I can't sacrifice it for the sake of somebody worried about censorship. You have to find a way to be truthful and honest.

    Book   Kids   Sacrifice  
    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense conciliatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.

  • Trustable words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not trustable.

    Beautiful   Wisdom   Fun  
  • In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.

    Order   Truthful   Speak  
    Michael Leunig (2006). “When I Talk to You: A Cartoonist Talks to God”, p.55, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

    "Exclusive Interview: Steve Coogan". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 19, 2009.
  • If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

    Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.2, Classics HD
  • Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful.

    Beautiful   Art   Truth  
    "Cinema and I" by Ritwik Ghatak, (pp. 75), 1987.
  • I'm just trying to be truthful and collaborate with people who have interesting things to say.

    "Judd Apatow: ‘Love’ was made for the Netflix binge, and ‘Girls’ should be weekly". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. February 17, 2016.
  • The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.

    Sylvia Boorstein (1995). “It's easier than you think: the Buddhist way to happiness”, HarperOne
  • Being truthful - that's what I admire the most in people. That's about it. As long as people are honest. Honest to themselves as well - more than anything else.

    Long   People   Honest  
    Source: www.boxinginsider.com
  • 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".

    Lying   Army   Order  
  • Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

    Truth   Character   Self  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”
  • A lot of the kind of comedy that I do comes out of real human moments. For them to work, they have to be truthful kinds of things that people in the audience can go, "Yes, I've experienced that myself!"

    Real   People   Comedy  
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