Honest Truth Quotes - Page 5

• Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

  Confucius

  Motivational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Truth, Lying, Half

  Dialogues prologue (1954)

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• I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests, roles and rituals, talking in twelve languages at once so the true words won't be so obvious. I am not used to a plainspoken, honest truth.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Talking, Games

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.26, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Way, Strict

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5702, Delphi Classics

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• A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.

  Charles Kingsley

  Blessed, Fighting, Self

  Charles Kingsley (1881). “The Works of Charles Kingsley”

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• Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

  Roberto Bolano

  Stronger, Comfort, Honest

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• If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

  Dogen

  Spiritual, Art, Truth

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• Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

  Robert Breault

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

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• If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Honesty, Liars

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• When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

  Thomas Paine

  Honesty, Integrity, Believe

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.1

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• Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

  Mark Van Doren

  Truth, Honesty, Taste

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• When truth is divided, errors multiply.

  Eli Siegel

  Honesty, Errors, Ethics

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• In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Honesty, Lying, Simple

  "13th Article simple yet powerful" by Chris Morales, www.ldschurchnews.com. September 21, 2007.

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• ...there is the sheer emotional, intellectual, physical, chemical pleasure of your children. The honest truth is that the world holds no greater gratification than lying in bed with your children, putting your leg on top of them in a semi-crushing manner, while saying sternly, "You are a poo.

  Caitlin Moran

  Crush, Children, Lying

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• Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Trust, Children

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• The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

  E. V. Lucas

  Honesty, Risk, Ethics

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• It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Memories, Lying

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

  Anton Chekhov

  Fiction, Honest, Aim

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• I've always felt protected. That's the God's honest truth.

  Denzel Washington

  Honest, Protected, Felt

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• The God-honest truth is that Jeff and I just do what we do. You have no control. We didn't have control last year, or the year before either, or the year before that. We can only do what we do, which is to make the show that we love, continue to follow the path for the stories that we want to tell, tell great and compelling stories, week-to-week, that interest our fans, and really hope for the best.

  J.H. Wyman

  Years, Fans, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Success, Fake People, Truth

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• In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Fall, Men, Names

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen: Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley. The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage. Southey and Porson. Oliver Cromwel and Walter Noble. Aeschines and Phocion. Queen Elizabeth and Cecil. King James I and Isaac Casaubon. Marchese Pallavicini and Walter Landor. General Kleber and some French officers. Bonaparte and the president of the senate. Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle. Peter Leopold and the President Du”, p.90

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• The marrying of an actor and his whimsical and theatrical vision is very enjoyable, because he wants it to be filled with something honest, truthful, human, soulful, substantial.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Vision, Actors, Want

  "Jeff Goldblum Talks THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, Being Part of Wes Anderson’s Universe, Preparing for His Role and Its Challenges, MORTDECAI, and More". Interview, collider.com. March 20, 2014.

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• A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.

  Antonio Porchia

  Honesty, Lying, Littles

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.

  Robert Breault

  Honesty, Men, Giving

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