Top 100 Truthful Quotes
#1. The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.
Sylvia Boorstein
#2. Honesty in art inspires and moves me. I am passionate about creating truthful experiences as much as I love being the spectator to a brilliant body of work.
Crystal Reed
#3. Honesty is the key to Happiness.
Be always truthful to yourself, to
your feelings, emotions, needs and
desires & to others, no matter what!
Lily Amis
#4. I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
Harold Prince
#5. Well, I believe that life is very complicated. And in a way, the only way you can show life in a truthful way is to show how complicated it is as an individual, but also your relation between a complicated life and the complications you have inside you.
Henning Mankell
#6. It's important to be honest and truthful with your constituents. At the end of the day, we represent them.
Devin Nunes
#7. If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we're going to be truthful.
A.S. Byatt
#8. One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others
Bruce Lee
#9. That was Evelyn's weakness. She was too kind, and too truthful. Both, I have found, are inconvenient character traits.
Elizabeth Peters
#10. Both transparency and trust form the basic component of truth itself. With truth, there is no need to be untrue. If one is truthful, then there is godliness because God is truth. And when godliness is on your side, success is guaranteed.
Vishwas Chavan
#11. There's a fine line between being truthful and being a complete jerk, I respond and with that I turn my back to the fire. I mutter an obligatory 'goodnight' before falling into sleep.
Celia Mcmahon
#12. Truth is relative, then. It is about timing. It is about what is safe. Truth is the luxury of the privileged, of people who have plenty of food and are not forced to hide because they are Jews. Truth can destroy, and therefore it is not always wise or even healthy to be truthful.
Patricia Cornwell
#13. Lying is for the weak-minded. If you can't think of a truthful way to solve your problems, you're not thinking hard enough.
Robin Brande
#14. Learn to win a lady's faith
Nobly, as the thing is high;
Bravely as for life and death -
With a loyal gravity.
Lead her from the festive boards,
Point her to the starry skies,
Guard her, by your truthful words,
Pure from courtship's flatteries.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#15. Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves ... Honor and love him ... do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
E. E. Cummings
#16. I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .
Silvio Berlusconi
#17. After all, mirrors are only as truthful as the eyes that are looking into them.
Cherie Currie
#18. I thought of you once as an angel... truthful and devoted. But you were born with sinister hands, so evil that you crushed your own wings. And now, my little angel will never fly.
Aven Jayce
#19. The thought of filming in London was a big draw because I could stay in my house. I read it, and I was really taken with it because it felt at once very unapologetic for what it was, which is a romantic comedy. But at the same time, a little spiky and a little truthful.
Simon Pegg
#20. My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.
Clarice Lispector
#21. The most direct way has been to ask people how much effort it took them to produce a deceptive or truthful message. People find lying more difficult than truth telling (Caso, Gnisci, Vrij, & Mann, 2005; Vrij, Semin, & Bull, 1996). As
Anonymous
#22. Every time I crash the Internet, it's like this little drop of truth. Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet. So what are we getting all of the rest of the time?
Kanye West
#23. For the myths of the East, the myths of the West, the myths of men, and the myths of women - these have so saturated our consciousness that truthful contact between nations and lovers can only be the result of heroic effort.
David Henry Hwang
#25. Let your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened.
Baha'u'llah
#26. If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking "Wow, we have to watch out."
Viggo Mortensen
#27. I think the biggest thing is just making sure that you do the work that you connect with, personally, and that you do work where you can really bring something to the table. It's just about being truthful to yourself.
Susanna White
#28. I'm truthful
which is very nearly unpardonable in civilized society.
Lisa Kleypas
#29. If you're truthful with yourself and others, forgiveness clears the path to righteousness, to grace. All we want is grace. We all want that light in our lives. And we can only get that when we go deep into truth.
Corbin Bernsen
#30. Sometimes, in a fictional story, you can be more honest and truthful, actually. As a journalist, you're a prisoner of the data, in effect. You have to tell the story with evidence you can verify.
Peter Landesman
#31. My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.
Mathew Brady
#32. Most people consider problems whose solutions don't suit them to be insoluble.
And they constantly ask questions to which they don't need truthful answers.
Sergei Dovlatov
#33. I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.
Mira Sorvino
#34. Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols.
James Davison Hunter
#35. I would love to say
that you
make me
weak in the knees
but
to be quite upfront
and completely
truthful
you
make my body
forget
it has knees
at all.
Tyler Knott Gregson
#36. Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.
Lester Bowie
#37. I find it very stupid that teenagers could only see caricatures of teenagers but they couldn't see films that you try to be a truthful context, a truthful portrayal of teenagers.
Alfonso Cuaron
#38. When we take our doubts and questions to Christ, we get truthful answers. We get complete answers. We get the love, wisdom, and support we need.
Toni Sorenson
#39. I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.
Katy Perry
#40. 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
#41. My intent, here, is to tell our story in a dramatically truthful way. While the facts may be less than accurate, please understand that the emotion is true. The intent is true. And, dramatically speaking, intention is everything.
Garth Stein
#42. All of my stories are 95 percent truthful.
Si Robertson
#43. Get smart, work hard and remain truthful to those who have taught you something to better love and serve your dancing.
Nelly Mazloum
#44. I think my fans respect me for bein' as truthful and honest as you can be and still be Rap music and not be opinion music. It's still Rap, its still style, flavor, flair, and people just kind of like how I present myself and the things that I do.
Ice Cube
#45. I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful.
Jim Garrison
#46. A lover's a liar,
To himself he lies,
The truthful are loveless,
Like oysters their eyes!
Kurt Vonnegut
#47. I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.
Lesley Ann Warren
#48. The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
Salman Rushdie
#49. 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
#50. I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer.
Darren Aronofsky
#51. There is nothing truthful, wise, humane, or strategic about confusing hostility to injustice and oppression, which is leftist, with hostility to science and rationality, which is nonsense.
Michael Albert
#52. 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
#53. There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
Barry McGuire
#54. Conscious communication is called Turiya-when you are totally effective, totally understood and totally truthful.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#55. We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.
Charles B. Rangel
#56. In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.
Denis Johnson
#57. Answering questions is a major part of sex education. Two rules cover the ground. First, always give a truthful answer to a question; secondly, regard sex knowledge as exactly like any other knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
#58. Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.
Zhu Rongji
#59. I just need to make sure I don't get in my own way of a truthful and organic moment. Regardless of the research involved, at the end of the day, I have to show up, breathe, and listen.
Jonathan Keltz
#60. When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.
Bob Gill
#61. A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.
Bill Cosby
#63. He is an honorable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man.
Charles Dickens
#64. Honesty is doing what you know or believe is right. Integrity is doing what is right and truthful.
Roy Bennett
#65. At the very moment when we refuse to follow our conscience and refuse to be truthful, we become all the more aware of the presence of conscience and the absolute truthfulness inside.
Ilchi Lee
#66. It was as if life could be shown but never explained, and words - all the words that did not say things directly - were for him the most truthful.
Richard Flanagan
#67. She felt that "truthful" and "honest" were two very different concepts. She could truthfully say that she hadn't eaten Roselyn's Chinese leftovers, but that wasn't honest because it omitted that Eliot did and that Shane did not object.
Thomm Quackenbush
#68. I like showing the gritty truthful dark side of humanity.
Jake Busey
#69. It was only when he was back in bed that it struck Harry that Dumbledore might not have been quite truthful. But then, it had been a quite personal question.
J.K. Rowling
#70. I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.
Nikki Giovanni
#71. I think there's a responsibility more as an artist to try and push in the direction you think comedy should go ... The biggest thing I could do for the art that I love was keeping it art: keeping it special, keeping it honest, keeping it truthful.
Jerrod Carmichael
#72. Be truthful ... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.
Mary McCarthy
#73. I want to play roles that I'm proud of, that I feel a certain integrity about, and I want to continue to be truthful in the work that I do.
Laz Alonso
#74. American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.
Edward R. Murrow
#75. For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell.
Billy Boyd
#76. A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.
Miranda Kerr
#77. The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#78. The truth actually lies mostly in three words - God bless you, I love you, I adore you, I trust you, I believe you, I mistrust you, and finally God curse you, I hate you and talak talak talak. Only the frauds and politicians speak beyond the three truthful words.
Amit Abraham
#79. 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
#80. Women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they're not being truthful, more often than not it's because they think truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn't mean they don't love you.
Nicholas Sparks
#81. Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.
Mahatma Gandhi
#82. My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to understand how literature is made. And then if they become great writers, that's great, and probably has nothing to do with me.
Grace Paley
#83. I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.
Mahatma Gandhi
#85. I may not have been completely honest about that."
"You? Less than truthful? I'm shocked, Nikolai. Shocked and horrified.
Leigh Bardugo
#86. To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.
Colin Montgomerie
#88. While 'The Help' is in so many ways a celebration of these women's friendships and what they overcome, it's also very truthful and very painful, and it was intense for my mom to read that.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#90. God wants you to be truthful and humble to yourself and others. He made you good and industrious, but you can't benefit from it if you always stumble on pride.
Stevan V. Nikolic
#91. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
Kurt Vonnegut
#92. History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.
Jon Weisman
#93. Its message is the story's two theological affirmations: (1) God's word is truthful and authoritative; and (2) the fulfillment of his promise of land is coming to pass.
Kenneth A. Mathews
#94. The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.
Caspar David Friedrich
#95. There is nothing to fear from truth ... Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.
Ray Dalio
#96. Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Lao-Tzu
#97. I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
Bela Lugosi
#98. I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.
Alanis Morissette
#99. Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful ... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.
Anne Michaels
#100. [The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.
Robert Altman
