17 Quotes Tagged: truthfulness

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To be persuasive we must be believable;
to be believable we must be creditable;
to be credible we must be truthful.

Edward R. Murrow, American broadcast journalist (1908–1965)

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You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.

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 one trust what people say about themselves.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Whenever you deny the hand of Justice, Violence almost always steps in.

Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.

"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself — that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.

Always judge a man by the coloring of his heart and only his heart. Truth can be found in his record of actions, not intentions.

They will only care when you're gone.

Marilyn Monroe, American actress and model (1926–1962)

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Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected. But the one lied to almost never shares this view. The moment we consider our dishonesty from the point of view of those we lie to, we recognize that we would feel betrayed if the roles were reversed.

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 constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

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