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Quotes About Truthful

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
~ Jeff Koons
Here's a question I've gotten like 5 times this year. "I haven't read your books yet. Are they any good?" No, I only write shitty books. I love to spend a lot of time writing intricately shitty books and then being painfully truthful about the crapulous product of my shitty labor.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
of her—and so I know nothing about her, beyond what Frank told me. I tend to believe that his descriptions of her were truthful, only because he was so truthful. But just because he described your mother truthfully doesn't necessarily mean he described her accurately. I can only assume that she was like all of us—a complicated being, composed of more than one man's impressions.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I am no politician.
~ Lech Walesa
I'm as honest as I can possibly be when I write.
~ Brantley Gilbert
I]f we take the whole history of philosophy, the systems reduce themselves to a few main types which, under all the technical verbiage in which the ingenious intellect of man envelops them, are just so many visions, modes of feeling the whole push, and seeing the whole drift of life, forced on one by one's total character and experience, and on the whole preferred – there is no other truthful word – as one's best working attitude. (James 1977, pp. 14–15)
~ Richard J. Bernstein
The unconscious music of the folk has all the marks of fine art; that it is wholly free from the taint of manufacture, the canker of artificiality; that it is transparently pure and truthful, simple and direct in its utterance.
~ Rob Young
What others think about you is the Perception, while what you know about yourself is the Reality. The Perception and the Reality would match perfectly - only if you are honest and truthful in your character, and transparent in your behavior. Transparency is the precursor to Trust, IMHO.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.
~ James Salter
Emotions are what make us human. The word 'emotion' stands for 'energy in motion.' Be truthful about your emotions and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures and to be cheerful and have courage when things go wrong.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of material accumulation that should instead be only one of many factors determining the direction of our lives under a more truthful, more broadly defined conception of ourselves.
~ Alain de Botton
If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy.
~ Don Richard Riso
First of all, try to have the highest of ethics and to be open and truthful about things, not hiding. If you have to hide something for company reasons, at least explain what you're doing. Don't mislead people. Know in your heart that you are a good person with good goals because that will carry over to your own self-confidence and your belief in your engineering abilities. Always seek excellence: make your product better than the average person would.
~ Jessica Livingston
A film like 'Whale Rider' is equally truthful, perhaps more so, to the Maori experience; Maori people respond to 'Whale Rider' because it's a world that they understand.
~ Niki Caro
The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium.
~ Matt LeBlanc
I've never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys - and the good guys always win, whereas in reality, most of the sheriffs were as bad as the gangsters they were after.
~ Harry Dean Stanton
I don't think Ed Horman could be dishonest if his life depended on it.
~ Jack Lemmon
I can't lie - I have one of those faces where you can tell. It's expressive and lends itself to being cheeky. I always tell the truth even when I should probably tell a white lie.
~ Jessica Barden
I'm not a fake person.
~ Megan Thee Stallion
I'm never fake on air.
~ Sara Cox
I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment.
~ Bob Dylan
HONESTLY ....I believe people are intimidated with truthful/ outspoken people. HONESTY..... will help you grow and it shows maturity.HONEST.....people will push you closer towards your destiny.
~ Takina Cupp
May my words be truthful, encouraging and humble. May my words be kind and filled with care.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO