Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 11

• Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

  Subhash Kak

  Animal, Men, Acting

  "The Prajna-sutras: Aphorisms of Intuition". Book by Subhash Kak, 2007.

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• Everything you want to know about a fighter is in his eyes. The look in his eyes tells the truth.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Eye, Looks, Want

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• Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. A few stirred-up women brought about women's voting. The Populist movement, the Progressive movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement - the examples go on and on of 'little people' getting together and telling the truth about their lives. They made our government act.

  Unita Blackwell

  War, Writing, Government

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• If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Truth, Power, Speak

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.66, Shambhala Publications

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• The conventional wisdom is - people say this all the time - you should only write something when you're far enough away from it that you can have a perspective. But that's not true. That's a story that you're telling. The truth of it is here, right now. It's the only truth that we ever know. And I'm interested in that truth and the confusion being part of the experience and sorting it your way through and figuring it out.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Writing, People, Confusion

  "Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.

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• I come here today as a Christian, a person of faith who believes we've all been called to serve our fellow men and women and to honor God's creation. We want our girls to know right from wrong, to always tell the truth, to treat people no matter who they are with dignity and respect, no matter how different they may seem...because we want our girls to know we are all God's children and there's so much more that unites than divides us.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Christian, Children

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• August Smith is a child telling the truth. Sometimes the truth is he has to listen to the voices of various creatures he's killed speak to him reproachfully, and he shares that with us, because wouldn't we all? Parties abound in this collection and reading it feels like being invited. You can tell Smith wants you there.

  Matthew Rohrer

  Children, Reading, Party

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• Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection.

  Amy Dickinson

  Friends, Reflection, Doors

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• I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel.

  Tucker Max

  Defense, Truth Is, Libel

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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  A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

  Richard Pryor

  Art, Lying, World

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• Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Important, Uncomfortable, Feels

  FaceBook post by Jennifer Lopez from Sep 17, 2014

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• We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis

  Lying, Trying

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “A Death in The Life”, p.174, Open Road Media

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• Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.

  Erica Jong

  America, Outcomes, Matter

  Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.9, Penguin

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• if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, War, Believe

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.853, Wordsworth Editions

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• It doesn't matter what race you are. It doesn't matter what religion you are. I always tell people: If you want to be a part of hip-hop, you just need to have a heart. You need to have the courage to tell the truth.

  Immortal Technique

  Heart, Race, People

  Source: readersupportednews.org

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• What I've tried to do in politics is two very simple things: tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

  Ted Cruz

  Simple, Two, Said

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• I think our nation faces enormous challenges, and we need leaders who are willing to tell the truth and do the right thing regardless of the consequences.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Leader, Challenges

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up.

  Michael Keaton

  Giants, Roles, Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Night, Men, Speech

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• The Four Rules of Life:
  1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

  Bill Vaughan

  Upset, Attention, Four

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• Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Lying, Merit, Habit

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.55, BookBaby

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• As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

  Bernard Berenson

  Lying, Home, Would Be

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• But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Soil, Common

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• The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Diplomats, Sensitive, Organs

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.251, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Culture, May, Moral

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.100, Bantam

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