Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 17

• The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.

  James Farley

  School, Men, Eight

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• How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears; and science competes with all together. And for each we have a different set of ears. But, though we hear much, what we are told is as nothing: none of it gives us ourselves, rather each story-kind steals us to make its reality of us.

  Laura Riding

  Philosophy, Reality, Giving

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• My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

  Laura Riding

  Stories, Function

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• Tell the truth. Say what is happening. Allow what is, and allow it to be known. Bring your children up in a home that is clean and clear and honest. There is no greater legacy you can give them.

  Vimala McClure

  Children, Truth, Home

  Vimala McClure, Sue Patton Thoele (2011). “The Tao of Motherhood”, p.143, New World Library

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• On Capitol Hill, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales raised his right hand, swore to tell the truth, and then everybody had a good laugh and went back to what they were doing.

  Jay Leno

  Hands, Laughing, Hills

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• My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets.

  Kinky Friedman

  Lying, Writing, Heart

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• You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.

  Herman Melville

  Sea, Rooms, Plenty

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.459, Northwestern University Press

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• I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Evil, World

  "The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois". Book edited by Aberjhani, 2003.

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• Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling, and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that's just the map of the journey. The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.

  Paul Greengrass

  Jobs, Journey, Skills

  "NYFF: Tom Hanks and Paul Greengrass Talk Captain Phillips". Interview, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. September 29, 2013.

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• We are living in a culture that if you criticize immorality you could be branded as a "bigot". I am going to lose a lot of support just by saying this. I am not a politician and I am not running a popularity contest. My job is to defend our world from Islam. You asked why the westerners convert to Islam and I must tell the truth as I see it. If that offends anyone, let him be offended.

  Ali Sina

  Running, Jobs, Our World

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Some people are scared to tell the truth, but I'm going to tell you the Good, the bad, the ugly," it's like, "Let's go there. Let's talk about it."

  LeCrae

  People, Ugly, Scared

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

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• We are missing the truth. We live in a society that lies and fosters and sells dishonesty at a discount. Remember the line, 'America spells cheese K-R-A-F-T? That does not spell cheese! We tell our kids that as long as it looks good on the outside, don't worry about the inside. Or work hard and you'll be rewarded in the end. That's not necessarily true anymore. We don't tell the truth about certain things. Young people see our hypocrisy. We haven't given them a model to follow.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Lying, Kids, Hard Work

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• As conservatives, as Republicans, we keep winning elections. We got a Republican House, we've got a Republican Senate, and we don't have leaders who honor their commitments. I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

  Ted Cruz

  Commitment, Winning, House

  The first Republican candidates for president GOP debate, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• People come telling the truth. When I ask how thing are in the States, they don't give me the okeydoke. They say, "Honey, things are hard." It reminds me I have to keep struggling.

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, Giving, People

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• Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Voice, Stories, Poet

  Interview with Nicole Sealey, mosaicmagazine.org. September 6, 2013.

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• You never have to look over your shoulder when you tell the truth. You never have to remember the details, because they are what they are. And you don't have to make sure your story matches everyone else's.

  Charlie Sheen

  Over You, Details, Looks

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Just tell the truth and you're home free. If there are amends to be made, you make them. You own it and move on.

  Charlie Sheen

  Moving, Home, Made

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself.

  Cornel West

  Lying, Teaching, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Pain, Children

  "Bill Cosby: Himself". www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• Just because a movie is satisfactory means that the person who makes it is satisfactory. One can make a wonderful movie but still not be a wonderful person. In terms of interviews, it's probably not a good idea, because moviemakers tend not to tell the truth, even when asked a question.

  Mamoru Oshii

  Mean, Ideas, Wonderful Person

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.

  Mario Bunge

  Liars, Hypocrite, Joining

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Trying, Fiction

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Truth, Children, Lying

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• Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It’s mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It’s about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Real, People

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.17, SPCK

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• This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

  Lee Grant

  Giving, Way, Dignity

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