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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. -- Mark Twain
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. -- Willa Cather
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. -- Laozi
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. -- George Orwell
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. -- Ernst Fischer
Be truthful, gentle, and fearless. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. -- Kurt Cobain
Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely -- Publilius Syrus
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. -- Ambrose Bierce
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. -- Thomas Jefferson
My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible. -- George Armstrong Custer
Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made. -- Barbara Stanwyck
The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful. -- Kurt Vonnegut
dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are. -- Kurt Cobain
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk. -- E. W. Howe
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. -- Frederick Douglass
Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem. -- Paul Celan
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye. -- Charlotte Bronte
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. -- Laozi
What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque. -- Corin Nemec
I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful. -- Spike Lee
The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Even if you know that what you'll say will hurt a woman's feelings, I've learned that it's better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about. -- Stephen Moyer
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. -- Pam Brown
Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do... -- George R. R. Martin
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. -- Toni Morrison
Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful. -- Brenda Ueland
One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truthful hearts have clear blue skies permanently hidden and bound to thrive from the accusing mists of doubts and lies." ~ Angelica Hopes~ an excerpt from If I Could Tell You -- Angelica Hopes
My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.' -- Rashida Jones
The truthful man is usually a liar. -- Alfred Nobel
I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good. -- Katy Perry
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful. -- Edward R. Murrow
You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun. -- David Spade
I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest. -- Katy Perry
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
It's not the traditional promise ring. It's basically to always stay truthful. I think that's a really important part of a relationship, that you're always honest with each other. -- Bella Thorne
People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling. -- Morgan Freeman
I've always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me; Intellectually, I don't think like that because I get uncomfortable. -- Tim Burton
We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again. -- Charles B. Rangel
The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful. -- Jean-Claude Van Damme
A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful. -- Miranda Kerr
To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it - like this is truthful! -- Margaret Cho
I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase. -- Olivia Thirlby
I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it. -- Howard Schultz
What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me. -- Jane Wiedlin
A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies. -- Confucius
In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life? -- Virginia Postrel
I want to be a man who is truthful and who won't let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, 'Here I am. This is me.' I feel there's something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable. -- Dwayne Johnson
The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure. -- John Caudwell
I was never a pretty girl, so I wasn't the one to get the boy. I used to cast myself as a good sport. Sometimes I wonder if I do that too much with roles I play, because if I'm absolutely truthful, I quite like being the best friend, or the supporting role, and actually I ought to gear-change and make myself the leading role. -- Celia Imrie
Me truthful... you mendacious.. !! -- Abhijeet Sawant
I'm drunk but truthful. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I'm drunk but truthful. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Kids are truthful by nature. -- Anna Chlumsky
Be bold, free, and truthful. -- Brenda Ueland
Everything I say is 95% truthful. -- Si Robertson
Be dignified, honest and truthful. -- Umar
TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate. -- Ambrose Bierce
I try and be truthful. -- Andrea Arnold
Being truthful is the new beautiful -- Suzy Kassem
I am not cruel, only truthful. -- Sylvia Plath
All of my stories are 95 percent truthful. -- Si Robertson
Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth. -- Adolf Loos
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth. -- Adolf Loos
To be credible we must be truthful. -- Edward R. Murrow
All men are born truthful and die liars. -- Luc de Clapiers
You can't live a truthful life without regret. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
Humility is all about being truthful and honest. -- Radhanath Swami
It's really important that my lyrics are truthful. -- Lianne La Havas
With a heart that is truthful, keeping you youthful. -- Smokey Robinson
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
There's no right or wrong just truthful or untruthful. -- Robert Duvall
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I can be glib and truthful all at once. -- Richard Russo
Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! -- Lydia M. Child
Knowledge is truthful only if itâ??s based in morality. -- Andrei Tarkovsky
I like showing the gritty truthful dark side of humanity. -- Jake Busey
We need a radically truthful way to acknowledge reproductive freedom. -- Ani DiFranco
A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful. -- Sally Phillips
The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I only believe in telling the truth and being truthful. -- Vinnie Tortorich
If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance. -- Charlie Chaplin
Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro. -- Billy Crystal
There's no point in getting frustrated at yourself. Just be truthful. -- Frederick Lenz
Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting. -- Virginia Woolf
Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living. -- Guru Nanak
Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous. -- Michelle Trachtenberg
When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself. -- Bob Gill
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First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller. -- Terence Winter
I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles. -- Jim Caviezel
If you lack vulnerability then you are not being truthful to yourself. -- Benjamin Stone
I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater. -- Harold Prince
Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside. -- Rob Lowe
Never been more truthful then right now, looking at you fixes everything. -- Holly Hood
Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument. -- Howard Shore
I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful. -- Sylvester Stallone
Not all truths hurt. And not all that is hurtful is truthful. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help, -- Edward Tufte
I have found the more fantastic the setting, the more truthful the confessions. -- S. Usher Evans
Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who becomes his most truthful self, becomes the leader for everyone else. -- Nikki Rowe
I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality . -- Silvio Berlusconi
Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't. -- Gabrielle Zevin
If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want -- Greek proverb
You can say no if that is more truthful than a resentful yes. -- Judith Lasater
I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me. -- Bela Lugosi
Photography is the truth if itâ??s being handled by a truthful person. -- Don McCullin
If you are truthful you will survive. If you lie you shall perish. -- Khalid ibn al-Walid
Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful. -- Elie Wiesel
The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22 -- Deborah Smith
Conscious communication is called Turiya-when you are totally effective, totally understood and totally truthful. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Develop the wise art of being radically truthful and remaining considerate, thoughtful, and safe. -- Claude Steiner
The Prophet also said: "A truthful and trustworthy merchant is associated with the prophets." -- Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi

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