Quotes About Truthfulness

How we all love extreme cases and apocalypses, fires, drownings, stranglings, and the rest of it. The bigger our mild, basically ethical, safe middle classes grow the more radical excitement is in demand. Mild or moderate truthfulness or accuracy seems to have no pull at all.

Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction.

El sistema reconoce que existen al menos seis maneras frecuentes de distinguir entre verdad y fantasía

May that light and joy and power: Keep my thoughts pure; Keep me gentle and truthful in all I say; Keep me faithful and diligent in my work; Keep me humble in my opinion of myself; Keep me honorable and generous in my dealings with others; Keep me loyal to every cherished memory of the past; Keep me mindful of my eternal destiny as your child.

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

Live truth instead of professing it.

I am clean I am true I am playing with my cards on the table.

A gentleman sees the people as they actually are character-wise and not how he himself is nature-wise and so he always says honestly whatever his heart feels like, good or bad, about their attitude.

I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.

Kids can tell if you're being genuine or not.

My father is genuine and frank. I don't have to say that, because everybody knows it.

People want to see you be genuine.

If you don't like somebody, just be genuine about it. You don't have to be anything else.

In truth, nothing could be more opposed to the purely aesthetic interpretation and justification of the world which are taught in this book than the Christian teaching, which is, and wants to be, only moral and which relegates art, every art, to the realm of lies ; with its absolute standards, beginning with the truthfulness of God, it negates, judges, and damns art.

Whoever does not believe himself always lies.

The Book of Mormon is a second witness of Jesus Christ and a manifestation of the truthfulness of the Prophet Joseph Smith. I love the Prophet Joseph. I love President Gordon B. Hinckley, who is the prophet of God and holds all the keys of the kingdom at this time, keys which prophets have held in uninterrupted succession since Joseph Smith.

I'm someone who says what he thinks.

I don't take a stance to score political points. That's not what I'm about. That's not why the people hired me. If I do take a stand on something, it's because I've thoroughly researched it.

Be humble, be modest, but try not to be dishonest.

You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, What are your thinking about? you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.

If you're honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable.

How rotten and spurious is the man who says: "I have decided to be straightforward with you.