“ One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage. ”
- Alain French- Copy
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“ The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. ”
- Frederick Douglass- Copy
- 3.3K
“ To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful. ”
- Hellmut Walters- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything. ”
- Louis Kronenberger- Copy
- 587
“ It's a ridiculous thing to say, but truthfully I don't really like guns. But, I end up playing characters that use a lot of guns. ”
- Oded Fehr- Copy
- 678
“ 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- Copy
- 170
“ A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks. ”
- Real Live Preacher- Copy
- 1.8K
“ To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful. ”
- Edward R. Murrow- Copy
- 480
“ Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
- 3.3K
“ To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometime. ”
- Colin Montgomerie- Copy
- 3K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.5K
“ If a man be self-controlled, truthful, wise, and resolute, is there aught that can stay out of reach of such a man? ”
- The Panchatantra- Copy
- 2.2K
“ If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure — the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
- 1.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk. ”
- Edgar Watson Howe- Copy
- 3K
“ Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 835
“ If you are passionate and truthful, you find success. There are a more people who have lasted forever as actors earlier because films used to be character driven and now they are mostly plot driven. Much of the most delicate work being done today is on television… ”
- Alec Baldwin- Copy
- 873
“ I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training. ”
- Benjamin Bratt- Copy
- 2.1K
“ That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds. ”
- Lydia M. Child- Copy
- 399
“ What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful. ”
- Edward Dahlberg- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I'm limited, so, I kind of know where I fit as an actress. I kind of get it now, finally, after all of these years of trying to be a dramatic actress. I kind of think that'd I'd like to continue dealing with these things in a funny, lighter vein, but also truthful and honest. ”
- Diane Keaton- Copy
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