Truthful Quotes

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

  

  Mark Twain
  • Man
  • Liar
  • Acknowledge

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Always
  • Truthful
  • Ambitions

• Get smart, work hard and remain truthful to those who have taught you something to better love and serve your dancing.

  

  Nelly Mazloum
  • Dance
  • Taught
  • Truthful

• Be dignified, honest and truthful.

  

  Umar
  • Honest
  • Inspiring
  • Truthful

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Interesting
  • Results
  • Bounds

• 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

• Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of human qualities taken, if you like, to the nth degree. i mistrust gods who become so separated from humanity that enormous crimes can be committed in their names. i prefer gods who can be brought down to earth and judged, if you like.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Earth
  • Quality
  • Taken

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Alone
  • Integrity
  • Conscious

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

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Important
  • Truthful
  • Paycheck

• I just like talking, and I'm really truthful. Sometimes things come out of my mouth, and I think, 'Maybe I shouldn't have said that,' but at the end of the day, I am who I am! When I'm not acting, I'm going to be fully Hayley Hasselhoff, and that's what you're going to get. And I enjoy that.

  

  Hayley Hasselhoff
  • Truthful
  • Hayley Hasselhoff

• 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

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