Truthfulness Quotes (page 114)

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• war
• wars
• truths

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another. Paul Fussell

• great
• greatness
• mind

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth. Milan Kundera

• play
• relationship
• wall

Housing projects are a great metaphor for the government's relationship to poor folks: these huge islands built mostly in the middle of nowhere, designed to warehouse lives. People are still people, though, so we turned the projects into real communities, poor or not. We played in fire hydrants and had cookouts and partied, music bouncing off concrete walls. But even when we could shake off the full weight of those imposing buildings and try to just live, the truth of our lives and struggle... Jay-Z

• giving
• manly
• manned

Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde

• memorial
• memories
• you me

To speak truth, sir, I don't understand you at all: I cannot keep up the conversation, because it has got out of my depth. Only one thing I know: you said you were not as good as you should like to be, and that you regretted your own imperfection--one thing I can comprehend: you intimated that to have a sullied memory was a perpetual bane. It seems to me, that if you tried hard, you would in time find it possible to become what you yourself would approve; and that if from this day you began... Charlotte Bronte

• evening
• truths
• flows

...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down. Dodie Smith

• believe
• mindfulness
• mind

I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet we have to deal with them. If we want to accomplish anything, we have to deceive them into letting us accomplish it. Or force them. They understand nothing else. We cannot expect their support for any endeavor of the intellect, for any goal of the spirit. They are nothing but vicious animals. They... Ayn Rand

• humorous
• stupid
• universe

To be angered by evil is to partake of it, stupid. - Phrases of Import and Salvation, Chapter IX, The Book of Universal Truths and Other Humorous Anecdotes Alan Dean Foster

• love
• choose
• lasts

And I shall set this last truth down. We are who we are because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us. Kate Mosse

• good
• sacrifice
• breaking

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it. John Henry Newman

• home
• homes
• truths

If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home. Clifford Geertz

• passed away
• pain
• lost

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. That's a running sore. John Steinbeck

• relatives
• she
• friends life

But hidden drawers, lockable diaries and cryptographic systems could not conceal from Briony the simple truth: she had no secrets. Her wish for a harmonious, organised world denied her the reckless possibilities of wrongdoing. Mayhem and destruction were too chaotic for her tastes, and she did not have it in her to be cruel. Her effective status as an only child, as well as the relative isolation of the Tallis house, kept her, at least during the long summer holidays, from girlish intrigues... Ian Mcewan

• fierce
• question
• evening

A novel is purposely a-philosophic, even anti-philosophic, fiercely independent of any system of preconceived ideas, it questions, it marvels, it doesn't judge, nor proclaims truths. Milan Kundera

• writers
• truth
• truthfully

Lack of clarity is a writer's truth. Amy Tan