Truthful Quotes

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

  

  Mark Twain
  • Man
  • Liar
  • Acknowledge

• I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Word
  • Climb
  • Truthful

• Everything is out of your control, and you can only be truthful about how you feel.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Control
  • Feel
  • Truthful

• When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Why
  • Friend
  • Simple

• The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Words

• He was enormously manipulative, very ambitious and not always truthful.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Always
  • Truthful
  • Ambitions

• Actors are embracing a new aesthetic, which is leaning more toward truthful and simple and direct, as opposed to what we would normally call sitcom acting.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Simple
  • Acting
  • Aesthetic

• I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
  • Tradition
  • Truthful

• My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don't fix them. That's the way it is.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Trying
  • Mistake
  • Honest

• Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Interesting
  • Results
  • Bounds

• It's truthful - every single song is an extension of me and a truthful piece of inspiration from my past or something I'm currently going through.

  

  Andrew Bazzi
  • Song
  • Inspiration
  • Piece

• Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Time
  • Men
  • Proud

• I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Important
  • Truthful
  • Paycheck

• A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Word
  • Truthful
  • Negative Emotions

• In order to be truthful We must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth. We must also receive truth. We must also act upon truth. We must also search for truth. The difficult truth Within us and around us. We must devote ourselves to truth. Otherwise we are dishonest And our lives are mistaken. God grant us the strength and the courage To be truthful. Amen

  

  Michael Leunig
  • Speak
  • Difficult
  • Honesty

• 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.

  

  Wilfred Owen
  • War
  • Today
  • Poetry

• If it is not truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is not truthful and helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and helpful, wait for the right time.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Helpful
  • Truthful
  • Right Time

• When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Character
  • High

• I love truthful songs that tell a story and talk about people and their lives. If a song calls for a tear, then we will cry. If a song calls for a smile, then we will laugh. That is what I like to do.

  

  Gene Watson
  • People
  • Stories
  • Laughing

• Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Sides

• You had to make everything much more truthful for the camera. With the stage it's a given that it's going to be theatrical.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Truthful
  • Theatrical

• Be dignified, honest and truthful.

  

  Umar
  • Honest
  • Inspiring
  • Truthful

• I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Trying
  • Words
  • Everyday

• On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

  

  Freya Stark
  • World
  • Art
  • Age

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