Being Truthful Quotes - Page 6

• My overall responsibility is to be truthful. If people pay money to come and see me, looking for something other than that, then they've made a mistake.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Mistake, Responsibility, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• 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.

  Robert Cormier

  Book, Kids, Sacrifice

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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  In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

  Ernst Fischer

  Change, Art, Society

  Ernst Fischer, Anna Bostock (1978). “The necessity of art: a Marxist approach”, Puffin

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• I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Believe, Fighting, Bisexual

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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'.

  Fred MacMurray

  Writing, Fake, Secret

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• There is nothing to fear from truth....Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.

  Ray Dalio

  Independent, Understanding, Essentials

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

  Michael Leunig

  Order, Truthful, Speak

  Michael Leunig (2006). “When I Talk to You: A Cartoonist Talks to God”, p.55, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

  Sigmund Freud (1954). “The Origns of Psycho- Analysis”

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• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

  Betty Smith

  Dream, Prayer, Liars

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• Women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they’re not being truthful, more often than not it’s because they think truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn’t mean they don’t love you.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Hurt, Love You, Mean

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “At First Sight”, p.81, Hachette UK

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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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• Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fearless, Inspire, Truthful

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• To be credible we must be truthful.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Truthful, Credible

  Testimony before a Congressional Committee, pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org. May 1963.

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• Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful.

  Ritwik Ghatak

  Beautiful, Art, Truth

  "Cinema and I" by Ritwik Ghatak, (pp. 75), 1987.

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• 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.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Truth, Lying, Simple

  Testimony before a Congressional Committee, pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org. May 1963.

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