Top 100 Truthful Quotes
#1. Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful - Christian community is the final apologetic.
Francis Schaeffer
#2. 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
#3. The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.
H.G.Wells
#4. I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere, genuine analysis of how the British Monarchy evolved into its present situation.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#5. The business conduct of the disciples of wise men is truthful and faithful ... He does not allow himself to be made a surety or a guarantor and does not accept the power of attorney ... He lends money and is gracious. He shall not take away business from his fellow man.
Maimonides
#6. We can choose to be truthful even when the choice means personal loss. We can choose to undertake a great action - unselfish, courageous, daringly creative - that looks unreasonable and irrational to the eye of the Ego.
Ilchi Lee
#7. After you read the script, then you actually just have to be in the moment you're in, in order to make it believable. You can't give it away. You can't tip it off. For me, it's always about being truthful in the moment I'm in. Hopefully, being able to reveal what I'm feeling, you have to believe it.
Victor Garber
#8. Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances.
Lauren Graham
#10. Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
Helen McCrory
#11. Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.
Terry Pratchett
#12. 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
#13. I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.
Bob Graham
#14. Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
E.W. Howe
#15. A more truthful perception may be seen from the perspective of the whole - what we really are, beyond names, roles, education, religion and other information added to our true nature.
Ilchi Lee
#17. There's no right or wrong just truthful or untruthful.
Robert Duvall
#18. Eternity is not just looking to the future and our place with God in Heaven, but it is looking at our Eternity as if it were only moments away.
Beth Nimmo
#19. 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
#20. Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
Wallace Shawn
#21. Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.
Howard Shore
#22. Divine is all Love in its essential nature, and Love is all Divine in its truthful expression.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#23. If someone asks me a question, there might be a truthful answer and a correct answer.
Tim Henman
#24. Remember my words: Be truthful, be kind to one another, and you will attain peace. We will meet again in another life.
Jeanne M. Lee
#25. Truth will keep on telling the truth
Lies will lie to be more uncouth
No more rainbow after the storm
Nowhere to escape leaving the norm
Munia Khan
#26. What I believe in is being transparent and truthful and always trying to get the facts right. People will make their own judgment of whether or not they want to trust you based on how transparent you are with them and the principles that you bring to the game.
Jeremy Scahill
#27. The sins of good men are greater than the sins of bad men. One lie from a truthful man is more hurtful than all the lies of a liar. The sins of a man after God's own heart have done more harm than all the crimes of all the Pagan emperors.
Hesba Stretton
#29. Every song that has been a hit for me has been honest and truthful. I have to believe that same formula will work on this (television) show. It has to be believable and honest.
Reba McEntire
#30. When I told the therapist that the "me" that I am now is the best me I can be, I was truthful. I've always given you my best, so when you say it's not enough, it chips away at the "best me.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#31. I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, she's inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#32. Many of us can't go home again, whether home is Seville, Cabo Sur, Nastas, Havana, or Kansas City. Thus, we must recognize that home really lies in the eternal peace, dormant or conscious, that dwells in each human heart ... Quote from "Ms. Quixote Goes Country", a truthful novel.
LEVega
#33. He [William Merritt Chase] is, I suspect, getting a very truthful likeness. I would like it better if [it] was not so gray, so cramped about the eyes, and not quite so corpulent. But is this not quarreling with nature?
Rutherford B. Hayes
#34. Remembering lies is a full-time job, one best to quit.
Rich DiSilvio
#35. And a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.
C.S. Lewis
#36. A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.
Anurag Shourie
#37. Everything is out of your control, and you can only be truthful about how you feel.
Shailene Woodley
#38. There will be glimpses of hope, shards of refracted light at the Cross when Jesus is crucified, but on the way there is very little. Sobering, yet truthful. We are reminded that others who have sought hope and freedom have had to endure without much to go on, too.
Megan McKenna
#39. The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film.
Abdellatif Kechiche
#41. I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?
John Bunyan
#42. I have an almost seven year old ... I think it's essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one.
Stephen Collins
#43. Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it.
Nayvadius Cash
#44. Let's both be good, and truthful, and kind to each other, and let's be happy together and have fun always.
Donna Tartt
#45. I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else.
Jay-Z
#46. Even if people are all from the same place, there can be very, very different approaches. It's one of the things I'm fascinated by. It's why I like directing. I like to see how different people approach trying to be truthful, on camera or in the theater, and whether you can make them match up.
Kenneth Branagh
#47. I contend that one is likely to find more truth in fiction. A good painting after all is more truthful than a photograph. Remember that, Young Messenger, for all your days.
Vince Vawter
#48. 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
#49. 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
#51. I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.
Darin Strauss
#52. There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.
Auberon Waugh
#53. When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not 'truthful' enough, and I must begin again. I have to.
Sarah Brightman
#55. I've never been more confused in my life, but at the same time I've never been more satisfied with what we've done.
Kurt Cobain
#56. Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily, not because she is beautiful or truthful or wise or foolish or proper, but because she is a woman, and he cannot help it. If she descends, he will lower to her level; if she rises, he will rise to her height.
Mary Abigail Dodge
#57. I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles.
Jim Caviezel
#58. I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.
Elie Wiesel
#59. Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.
Mahatma Gandhi
#60. I believe that on such an issue as this no one is or can be completely truthful. It is difficult to be certain about anything except what you have seen with your own eyes, and consciously or unconsciously everyone writes as a partisan
George Orwell
#61. I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.
James L. Brooks
#62. '50/50' is a comedy. I shouldn't say it's a buddy comedy because it's not farcical, and it's based on a true story, but it's viewing that experience through a very truthful lens of humour.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#63. When someone does
The wrong thing
Observe them as truth
Questions their actions ...
Those whom carry a selfish
Persona will never own their truthful faults,
But the one's of light will fight
To make their wrongs; right.
Nikki Rowe
#64. I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.
Jesse Ventura
#65. Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand.
Elbert Hubbard
#66. I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
#67. EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.
Ambrose Bierce
#68. The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
#69. We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.
Laura Innes
#70. 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
#71. It is better to be divided by truth than united in error.
Bruce Bickel
#73. I knew lots of Irish ladies in my life who would say daft things and then would just say something incredibly truthful in a very simple way with simple language - a few well chosen words that would take an intellectual five minutes to express. I like that.
Steve Coogan
#74. It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.
Griffin Dunne
#75. You have to do what is real and what is right and what is good and what you believe in. It doesn't mean it's always going to work. It doesn't. But when it does, it is truthful and forever.
Mitch Leigh
#76. My thoughts don't really bump along this way, but they do bump somehow, and it's more honest
more pedagogically useful, more truthful
to arrange them in a loose, disconnected, provisional way than to deliver only the conclusions.
Sara Levine
#77. And when she said, Father, I love you, she was neither naive nor dishonest, but the opposite: she was wise and truthful enough to lie.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#78. 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
#79. Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.
Paul Celan
#80. Integrity is fundamental to being men. Integrity means being truthful, but it also means accepting responsibility and honoring commitments and covenants.
D. Todd Christofferson
#81. He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.
Thomas Hardy
#82. Where body language conflicts with the words that are being said, the body language will usually be the more 'truthful' in the sense of revealing true feelings.
Glen Wilson
#83. There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.
Suzy Kassem
#84. Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Willa Cather
#85. And it seems to me that everyone is like me - they're all afraid of the slightest movement ... Everyone's sitting all closed up in his own glass cage waiting for something.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#86. Erin, you are not nothing. You are the most beautiful person I have ever known. V'Aidan
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#87. Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events; but when it comes to how we experienced them at the time, memory feels no obligation to truth.
Milan Kundera
#88. You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.
Renny Harlin
#89. The problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#90. We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.
Petra Collins
#91. He pulled her back, off balance so that she fell against him, and he took her face in his two hands and held it very still while his eyes looked down into hers. Somber, truthful, painfully honest. "I love you, Chloe," he said. "Which is the most dangerous thing I could do.
Anne Stuart
#92. There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#93. To be honest, I'm not even thinking about America. If I was to start thinking about the enormity of 'Downton' and the size of the project, then I wouldn't be able to be very truthful to the work. I would start to watch myself too much. I'm not even thinking about it. Who knows what will happen.
Tom Cullen
#95. I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
Anne Stevenson
#96. Expressing one's reality in words, as truthful as they might be, goads one to insincerity.
Orhan Pamuk
#97. Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. 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
#98. A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain
#99. Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.
Sathya Sai Baba
#100. My only sin in this world has been that I have been truthful and honest and God has blessed me for this earthly sin.
Amit Abraham
