Truthful Quotes - Page 16

• What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For one who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage?.

  Chanakya

  Heart, Austerity, Vices

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• The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist at her most outlandish - profane, eccentric, even a little mad - is at least as disquieting a figure.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Mad, Passionate

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• It's not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story, not because it's necessarily the most absolutely truthful, but because it's a thing that we tell ourselves that makes sense of the world, at least at this moment.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Truth, Stories, World

  "My Kid Could Paint That". Documentary, Family, Mystery, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Book, Men, Practice

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• When an acting teacher tells a student 'that wasn't honest work' or 'that didn't seem real,' what does this mean? In life, we are rarely 'truthful' or 'honest' or 'real'. And characters in plays are almost never 'truthful' or 'honest' or 'real'. What exactly do teachers even mean by these words? A more useful question is: What is the story the actor was telling in their work? An actor is always telling a story. We all are telling stories, all the time. Story: that is what it is all about.

  Stella Adler

  Teacher, Real, Character

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• It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under corporate form... they shall do so under absolutely truthful representations... Great corporations exist only because they were created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Business, Men, Rights

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• To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Skills

  Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.302, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking "Wow, we have to watch out."

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Watches, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I believe politicians should aim to be accurate and truthful in what they say at all times. You can be truthful and inaccurate but what you shouldn't be doing at any time is saying things that are untrue or making commitments that you have no intention of honouring.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Believe, Commitment, Politician

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• In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.

  Michael Leunig

  Order, Speak, Search For Truth

  Michael Leunig (2006). “When I Talk to You: A Cartoonist Talks to God”, p.55, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I only believe in telling the truth and being truthful.

  Vinnie Tortorich

  Believe, Telling The Truth, Being Truthful

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• Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

  Virginia Woolf

  Interesting, Results, Bounds

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own (Annotated)”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Darwinian evolution may be the most truthful and powerful idea ever generated by Western Science, but if we continue to illustrate our conviction with an indefensible, unsupported, entirely speculative, and basically rather silly story, then we are clothing a thing of beauty in rags - and we should be ashamed, "for the apparel oft proclaims the man.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Powerful, Silly, Men

  Stephen Jay Gould (1999). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• The power of a free people is often at the disposal of a single and seemingly an unimportant individual; a terrible and truthful power; for such a people feel with one heart, and therefore can lift up their myriad arms for a single blow. And, again, there is no graduated scale for the measurement of the influences of different intellects upon the popular mind. Peter the Hermit held no office, yet what a work he wrought!

  Albert Pike

  Heart, Blow, People

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• I really think more about being honest and truthful about feelings and how people behave for the movies that I direct, but I also love movies like Zohan and Anchorman, just balls to the wall, how much can you make people laugh in one 90 minute period.

  Judd Apatow

  Anchorman, Wall, Thinking

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think people respond to truthful, simple narrative, and the more you try to dress it up to try and do something else, the harder it is for people to relate to.

  Liev Schreiber

  Thinking, Simple, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into new heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?

  Milan Kundera

  Real, Men, Air

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• When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Art, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Bend words. Stretch them, squash them, mash them up, fold them. Turn them over or swing them upside down. Make up new words. Leave a place for the strange and downright impossible ones. Use ancient words. Hold on to the gangly, silly, slippy, truthful, dangerous, out-of-fashion ones.

  Kyo Maclear

  Fashion, Silly, Swings

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• As a director I always look at someone's eyes. How truthful are they? Will this person take me on this journey?

  Ruba Nadda

  Eye, Journey, Directors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The business conduct of the disciples of wise men is truthful and faithful.... He does not allow himself to be made a surety or a guarantor and does not accept the power of attorney.... He lends money and is gracious. He shall not take away business from his fellow man.

  Maimonides

  Wise, Men, Faithful

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• I feel like I need just to keep trying to make the work for the right reasons. I think part of that is working with really good people, and just trying to make strong truthful work. And not being diverted from that.

  Cate Shortland

  Strong, Thinking, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, Speech, Daily Life

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• A lot of people would say, to be truthful is to tell all, every dalliance, every crisis. They might be right on paper, but in practice, it's not a great way to go.

  Adam Carolla

  Practice, People, Paper

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

  Ameen Rihani

  Heart, Simple, Mind

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