Truthful Quotes - Page 9

• The Prophet also said: "A truthful and trustworthy merchant is associated with the prophets."

  Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi

  Positive, Trustworthy, Prophet

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• The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.

  Peter Høeg

  Reality, Bridges, Balance

  Peter Høeg (2013). “Tales of the Night”, p.309, Macmillan

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• To be honest and truthful in all endeavours is an experience, not a regret

  Fela Kuti

  Regret, Honest, Endeavour

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• It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

  David Mamet

  Jobs, Play, Interesting

  David Mamet (2011). “True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor”, p.41, Vintage

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• I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.

  Kurt Cobain

  Thinking, People, Guy

  "Rolling Stone" Magazine, January 27, 11993.

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• My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

  Clarice Lispector

  Giving, Single Word, Interiors

  "The Hour of the Star". Book by Clarice Lispector, 1977.

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• Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motivation thoroughly. One should be very truthful, honest, and reasonable. One's actions should be good for others, and for oneself as well. Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, Regret, Adversity

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.56, Penguin Books India

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• If it is not truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is not truthful and helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and helpful, wait for the right time.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Waiting, Helpful

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• There is nothing new and nothing truthful in the false accusations against public officials make by the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation today, ... The simple reality is that the Schaghticoke fail to meet the criteria for federal recognition.

  Richard Blumenthal

  Simple, Reality, Today

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• It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.

  Griffin Dunne

  Mistake, Reality, Satire

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• Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

  Taylor Dane

  Song, Real, Years

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• Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.

  Erykah Badu

  Mean, Soul, Vegan Food

  Interview with Lisa Mickleborough, vegnews.com. October 06, 2008.

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• My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don't fix them. That's the way it is.

  Neil Diamond

  Mistake, Voice, Perfection

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I could change the attitude of young men toward literature, I would want them to read not just for escape, but because literature can be more truthful about things like sex, commitment, and aging. It can be more truthful about the stuff that our parents lied to us (and themselves) about, and the stuff that everyone has to lie about. It can all be dealt with truthfully in fiction and poetry.

  Lorin Stein

  Sex, Attitude, Lying

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• No animal needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.

  Howard Lyman

  Life, Animal, Order

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• My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.

  Mathew Brady

  Photography, Art, Thinking

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• In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Writing, Political Language

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• Their pain [the injurer's pain at having injured you] and your pain create the point and counterpoint for the rhythm of reconciliation. When the beat of their pain is a response to the beat of yours, they have become truthful in their feelings...they have moved a step closer to a truthful reunion.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Pain, Feelings

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• Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Movement, Awakening

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.87, Vintage

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• It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop

  Auguste Rodin

  Photography, Lying, Artist

  Auguste Rodin, Paul Gsell (1983). “Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them.

  D. A. Carson

  Jesus, Important, Telling The Truth

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• Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Proud, Pity

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.212, RosettaBooks

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• Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events; but when it comes to how we experienced them at the time, memory feels no obligation to truth.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Past, Track

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• Divine is all Love in its essential nature, and Love is all Divine in its truthful expression.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Love Is, Expression, And Love

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• We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.

  E. W. Howe

  Life, Truth, Religion

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