Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

  Mark Twain

  Doubt, Fiction, Use

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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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• Please explain to me why John Kerry sounds more dickish telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying. How is that possible?

  Jon Stewart

  Lying, Sound, John Kerry

  "The Oscar for best satirist goes to ..." by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2006.

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• I do not know why it matters that I should tell the truth to myself at night, why it should matter that the truth should be spoken at least once in the world. Because the world is a place of silence, the sky at night when the birds have gone is a vast silent place. Words will make the slightest difference to the sky at night. They will not brighten it or make it less strange. And the day too has its own deep indifference to anything that is said.

  Colm Toibin

  Night, Sky, Differences

  Colm Toibin (2014). “The Testament of Mary: A Novel”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Art is lies that tell the truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Lying, Art Is

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• Justice requires lawyers who are prepared, witnesses who tell the truth, judges who know the law, and jurors who stay awake. Justice is the North Star, the burning bush, the holy virgin. It cannot be bought, sold, or mass produced. It is intangible, ineffable, and invisible, but if you are to spend your life in its pursuit, it is best to believe it exists, and that you can attain it.

  Paul Levine

  Stars, Believe, Law

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• Leaders should be able to Stand Alone, Take the Heat, Bear the Pain, Tell the Truth, and Do What's Right

  Max De Pree

  Pain, Leader, Able

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• And I have a dream of a New American Language, one with a little bit more Spanish. I have a dream of a new pop music, that tells the truth with a good beat and some nice harmonies.

  Dan Bern

  Dream, Nice, Littles

  Song: New American Language, Album: New American Language, 2001

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• Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.

  Zadie Smith

  Hands, Veils

  "Zadie Smith's rules for writers" by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Hurt, Lying, Hurts Someone

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• Have the courage to speak your mind and tell the truth from a position of love rather than anger or fear, being open to accept the views of others without feeling threatened or defeated, relinquishing the ego's need to be in control by demonstrating the willingness to do whatever it takes to establish peace.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Views, Speak Your Mind, Ego

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 22, 2013

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• When we are aligned with our highest selves, we trust ourselves enough to follow our hearts. Then we are able to be straight and tell the truth about who we are, and what we want, even if it disappoints someone else. Are you being straight about who you are?

  Debbie Ford

  Heart, Self, Want

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• When you have power you don't have to tell the truth. That's a rule that's been working in this world for generations. And there are a great many people who don't tell the truth when they are in power in administrative positions.

  Dean Burk

  Lying, People, Generations

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• I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.

  Ed Rendell

  Free Spirit, Spirit

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• But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly 'tell' the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, 'the truth', which may well exist, but which we cannot define.

  Declan Donnellan

  Truth, Our Words, Tools

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• Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

  Aleister Crowley

  Truth, Improbable

  Aleister Crowley (1907). “Konx Om Pax: Essays in Light”

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• The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

  Susan Howatch

  Truth, Sound, Advantage

  FaceBook post by Susan Howatch from May 12, 2015

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• If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

  Charles George Gordon

  Truth, Infinite, Ifs

  Charles George Gordon (1888). “Letters of General C.G. Gordon to His Sister, M.A. Gordon”, London ; New York : Macmillan

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