Top 129 Truthfulness Quotes & Sayings

Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation.

Truthfulness itself is almost medication, even when it’s served without advice or insight.

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

This generation must know that the total truthfulness of the bible is under continual assault.

The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.

On stage you can get away with a lot more in the sense of emotion and truthfulness. But the camera is the eye of God. It sees everything.

What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference.

I think when an actor feels like they're being watched with great sensitivity and a subtle eye and a nose for truthfulness, that has some effect.

The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.

The keys to success, in business and in life, are truthfulness, the ability to take and give, honest and well-intended feedback, strength of character and conviction in one's principles

Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept.

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches.

Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.

If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.

Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?

I struggle between what I know is right in my own mind, and some warped truthfulness as seen through other people's eyes who have no heart, and can't see the difference anyway.

Truthfulness is the real mark of integrity.

Truthfulness is godliness.

Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage.

Truthfulness is the foundation of all virtues of the world of humanity. Without truthfulness, progress and success in all the worlds of God are impossible for a soul. When this holy attribute is established in man, all the divine qualities will also become realized.

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.

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

The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.

Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.

There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland.

I cry at the end of every episode of "Girls." I'm just so overwhelmed by the truthfulness with which [Lena Dunham] conveys human nature.

We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches

... love given without free will or truthfulness wasn't love at all.

Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.

At the end of the day, in brief summary: inerrancy is interested in the truthfulness of Scripture and it is a powerful way forcing people to think about that reliability that is God-given.

The only legitimate interpretation of the concept of the "public" is that it's a highly heterogeneous group of people, and I cannot imagine who has the right to speak on their behalf using a "public" voice. If the multiplicity of the environment is its true nature, then my works defend this truthfulness. The greatest fairness in society is to defend the difference between each individual - the fairness and truthfulness of their inconsistency and differentiation.

This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how and why we have come to think of accuracy, sincerity, and authenticity as virtues. Bernard Williams' account of their emergence is as detailed and imaginative as his defense of their importance is spirited and provocative. Williams asks hard questions, and gives them straightforward and controversial answers. His book does not simply describe and advocate these virtues of truthfulness; it manifests them.

Truthfulness is the main element of character.

I'm very true to the old punk ethics of honesty and truthfulness and integrity... and still be authentic.

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God's Word.

The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.

Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.

The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.

What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone?

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

My role as a producer is very specific. It's maintaining the creative truthfulness, day in and day out.

The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.

I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.

The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.

I think what I find challenging is just trying to bring a truthfulness and a realism to a character.

It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem's concerns or the poet's truthfulness.