Truthful Quotes

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Lao Tzu

Good, Beautiful, Words

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell

Political, Give, Wind

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
Frederick Douglass

Life, Honest, Nation

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

Change, Faith, Art

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
Henry Miller

Life, Liar, Though

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Willa Cather

Great, Stupid, Difficult

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
Charlotte Bronte

Soul, Often, Eye

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

Change, Equality, Fight

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow

Persuasive, Believable, Credible

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.
Alanis Morissette

Found, Vulnerable, Empowering

I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.
Katy Perry

Good, Everything, Honest

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.
Elie Wiesel

I think it's really important that the people who are going to make decisions for other people have fair, truthful and compassionate regard for all people, not just some people.
Sharon Stone

Important, Decisions, Fair

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
E. W. Howe

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

Person, Hear, Modest

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

Important, Boring, Film

You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.
David Spade

Fun, Around, Either

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

Life, Pet, Integrity

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

Beautiful, Woman, Everything

I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.
Eddie Izzard

Funny, Mean, Sometimes

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
Adolf Loos

Nature, Truth, Sides

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.
George Saunders

Goal, Strange, Try

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
Rick Springfield

Life, Why, Write

I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
Bela Lugosi

Important, Paycheck, Weekly

You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best.
Serj Tankian

Music, Best, True

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.
Augusten Burroughs

End, Everything, Write

Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.
Steve Coogan

Good, Reality, Big

I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being.
Steve Coogan

Someone, Human, Real

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