Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 21

• To tell the truth is an act of love. To withhold the truth is an act of hate. Or worse, apathy.

  Gene Kim

  Hate, Apathy, Truth Is

  Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford (2014). “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win”, p.242, IT Revolution

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• Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Long, Answers

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Most of us avoid telling the truth because it's uncomfortable. We're afraid of the consequences-making others feel uncomfortable, hurting their feelings or risking their anger. And yet, when we don't tell the truth, and others don't tell us the truth, we can't deal with matters from a basis in reality.

  Jack Canfield

  Hurt, Reality, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Dec 02, 2013

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• Thanks to pathetic reporting by The New York Times and other media sycophants more than 50 years ago, Fidel Castro, following the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, was also seen by many as a liberator of Cuba. 'I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.' Castro said at the time. Only after he consolidated power, did he tell the truth: 'I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.'

  Cal Thomas

  New York, Media, Years

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• The street is the most impactful for me really, always, and the Internet. I guess I'd like to sell some more light pieces so I can rent some more billboards; that's my only ambition in life really. Then I'd like to save up some money so I can buy a very simple wooden house, and then after that I'd like to start buying billboards. I'd like to buy a bunch of billboards in different cities so we owned them and I could give them to Occupy to tell the truth with.

  Robert Montgomery

  Ambition, Simple, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

  Jussie Smollett

  Scary, Over You, Weight

  Source: collider.com

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• As an actor, your main goal is to tell the truth.

  Johnathon Schaech

  Goal, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write to tell the truth.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Writing, Sound

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

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• The person who imagined that he could not be the victim of propaganda because he could distinguish truth from falsehood, is extremely susceptible to propaganda, because when propaganda does tell the truth, he is then convinced that it is no longer propaganda: moreover, his self-confidence makes him all the more vulnerable to attacks of which he is unaware.

  Jacques Ellul

  Self Confidence, Doe, Vulnerable

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• I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie to you and God knows I am telling the truth. I think all my success and fame and I have wanted it, I have wanted it because I wanted to be loved. That's all. That's the real truth.

  Michael Jackson

  Real, Lying, Thinking

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• The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.

  Alan Watts

  Baby, Lying, Believe

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• How forthright does the audience want the broadcasters to be? Because when you tell your truth, there's a lot of anger that comes out. I think it's a good question to ask TV people [executives] too. How much truth do they want to be told? How much truth does the league want told? Because the truth isn't just a positive truth. If you're going to tell the truth, you would be telling a lot of positive and some negative.

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Thinking, People, League

  "ESPN 2015 NBA Finals Media Call with Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson". Interview with Gianina Thompson, espnmediazone.com. June 1, 2015.

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• I think the most important thing I learned from my dad is the importance of telling the truth...treat other people well, work hard at the job and tell the truth.

  Sean McDonough

  Jobs, Dad, Hard Work

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• I think the biggest lesson I learned from my Dad was the importance of telling the truth.

  Sean McDonough

  Dad, Thinking, Lessons

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• I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present within ourselves. It tells the truth about the human condition - that we're not okay.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Christian, Reality, Names

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn't offer a cure. It doesn't offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Healing, Church, Might

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.209, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

  Eudora Welty

  Voice, Honest, Speak

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• If you will stop all searching right now and tell the truth to yourself,
  you will know what is known in the core of your bones.
  You will know it with no image of it, no concept of it, no thought of it.
  You will know it as that which has eternally been here.
  And you will know it as yourself.

  Gangaji

  Bones, Truth To Yourself, Right Now

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• That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is a lie, except in the sense that Cocteau wrote one day: I am a lie who always tells the truth. The only poetry which lies purely and simply is academic, pseudo-classical, conceptually repetitive poetry, and it is not poetry.

  Jacques Maritain

  Plato, Lying, Thinking

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• Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.

  Adrian Tan

  Busy, Truth Is, Goodness

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• I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.

  Jack Kirby

  Lying, Men, Suffering

  Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/7.

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• I am scared of my father to this day. My father walked in the room - and God knows I am telling the truth - I have fainted in his presence many times. I have fainted once to be honest. I have thrown up in his presence because when he comes in the room and this aura comes and my stomach starts hurting and I know I am in trouble.

  Michael Jackson

  Hurt, Father, Auras

  Source: www.today.com

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• Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

  Isaac Asimov

  Lying, Reputation, Scientist

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• Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite.

  Judith Viorst

  Lying, Truth Is, Manners

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• Tell the truth, lies are difficult to remember.

  William Cranch Bond

  Lying, Remember, Difficult

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