Truthfulness Quotes

95 Truthfulness quotes by 81 unique authors

A good man will never harm or oppress another. A good man will share his last morsel of food with others in need, and die… — Suzy Kassem
It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it thrived… — Bessie Head
On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to… — H. L. Mencken
The inability to lie is far from the love of truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous. — George Bernard Shaw
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth. — William Hazlitt
A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored. — Juvenal
The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective… — Paul Strand
The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours. — Vincent Van Gogh
There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the Rembrandts… — John Berger
For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy... — Sathya Sai Baba
The Book of Mormon is no fake. I know what I know. I have seen what I have seen and I have heard what I… — Martin Harris
Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have… — Gary Hamel
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. — Seamus Heaney
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can… — Rebecca West
To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just… — Julian Baggini
The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will. — Ken Wilber
Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of… — Cormac McCarthy
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us… — Pablo Picasso

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