Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 27

• The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

  Kent Conrad

  People, President, Seriousness

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• We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Truth, Pride, Refuge

  Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.24, Tuttle Publishing

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• The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.

  Wendy Lesser

  Self, Voice, Greek

  Wendy Lesser (2014). “Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books”, p.98, Macmillan

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• It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

  Gao Xingjian

  True Life, Fiction, Literature

  "Living without 'isms'". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.

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• The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.

  Cornel West

  Dark, Pessimistic, Truth Is

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• Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let alone the whole truth. Spoken words are facts in themselves, whether true or false. When people talk they reveal themselves, whether they're lying or telling the truth.

  Halldór Laxness

  Lying, People, True Or False

  Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

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• Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.

  B. B. King

  Lying, Thinking, Guitar

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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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• When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Powerful, Lying, Party

  Orson Scott Card (2012). “Red Prophet: Tales of Alvin maker”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Television, Impossible

  1976 Christ and theMedia,'Questions following the 3rd lecture'.

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• What I respect about my dad is he comes forth and he tells the truth, and he's a very honorable person, I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart.

  Brooke Hogan

  Dad, Heart, Honorable

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The saying is, life is short, but what if it's not? But if life is short, is this how you would like to spend your last days? And if life is long, is this how you want to spend 50, 60, or 70 years? Being ashamed? Being quiet? Hoping no one notices you? Not telling the truth? Walking around heavy? If I die in my sleep tonight, God forbid, I am happy with how I've lived my life. I've lived it truthfully.

  Karrine Steffans

  Life Is Short, Sleep, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Lying, Eye, Tongue

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.71, Lulu.com

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