Quotes About Truthfulness

For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy.

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.

At the outset, I think that one should be natural, not just when it comes to writing but in every area of life. If you try to be something that you are not just to impress others, then it's a rather sad life.

mean, not the crocodile. Definitely not in the reptile-throwing business, me.

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

Men should be what they seem.

Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound reverbs no hollowness.

If a man's word isn't any good, he's no good himself.

True self-respect, according to Mencius, is based on the vales of benevolence, dutifulness, conscientiousness, truthfulness, and delight in what is good. Bravery, in Chinese philosophy, is the quality that allows people to pursue those values, hold steadfast to them in times when they are challenged, and remain true to them when faced with conventional social ideals that conflict with full human excellence.

There was nothing fake or added or subtracted about him. He was all himself.

If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling.

The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness. 

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one. Some of us are pious, some of us are generous. Some few of us are honest, comparatively speaking; and some, fewer still, may possibly be truthful. But in vanity and kindred weaknesses we can all join hands.

I don't hide or play stupid games.

To move forward, you have to accept the truth of a situation. Not persist in myth-making.

on Paulette Goddard] It was her honesty I liked.

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

He showed me things I had never seen, cruelties and horrors all committed in the name of the Authority, all designed to destroy the joys and the truthfulness of life.

I have no agenda.

I want to be as real as possible. I aim to be that.

I'm not ashamed to speak my mind. What you see is what you get. You're not going to get a two-faced person who is going to say one thing and mean another.