Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true. — Richard A. Snelling
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. — Otto von Bismarck
Tell a lie and the truth will come to light. — Filipino Proverbs
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. — Mark Twain
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. — James E. Faust
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her. — Adrienne Rich
Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said. — Mark Twain
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. — Al Pacino
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory! — Mark Twain
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie. — Ann Landers
Top 10 Telling The Truth Quotes
If the truth shall kill them, let them die. — Ayn Rand
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. — George Orwell
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. — Oscar Wilde
Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves. — Mother Angelica
I tell the truth; listen everyone. Only those who have Loved, will realise the Lord — Guru Gobind Singh
My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference. — Harry S. Truman
Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off. — Fannie Lou Hamer
I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes. — Sonia Sanchez
Telling The Truth Image Quotes
Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. — Mark Twain
It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you. — Drake
A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself. — Neville Cardus
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. — Mark Twain
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.
Not Telling The Truth Quotes
Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered. — Alfie Kohn
We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day. — Ann Richards
A true friend will tell you the truth to your face - not behind your back. — Sasha Azevedo
Tell a lie once and all your truths become questionable.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. — Virginia Woolf
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say. — George R. R. Martin
Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you're going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they're not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals. — Jocko Willink
I respect those who tell me the truth, no matter how hard it is.
Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing! — Sadegh Hedayat
I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. — Orson Welles
Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt — Christian Boltanski
When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth. — Rumi
Sometimes Telling The Truth Quotes
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. — Ernest Hemingway
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me. — Drake
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth. — William Rees-Mogg
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. — Patrick Murray
Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don't think God categorizes sins. — Joel Osteen
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths. — Faith Popcorn
Reagan believed the power of truth restated the world and re framed the world. I am a Reaganite. I'm proud to be a Reaganite. I will tell the truth, even if it's at the risk of causing some confusion sometimes with the timid. — Newt Gingrich
Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth. — Jodi Picoult
To tell you the truth I love Sam. It's not a movie kind of love either. I just look at her sometimes and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the whole world. — Stephen Chbosky
Importance Of Telling The Truth Quotes
People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid. — Nicholas Sparks
Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is the midwife of understanding. It's very important for me to tell politics like a story, to make it real. — Arundhati Roy
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
Press freedom does not mean that the press should be above the law. While it's vital that a free press can tell truth to power, it is equally important that those in power can tell truth to the press. — David Cameron
Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society — your home — tells you is important. — Brad Warner
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence — William Shakespeare
The government will one day be corrput and filled with liars and the people will flock to the one who tells the truth.
So I always think its important to allow someone to reveal themself. If you notice something about someone that you like, it could really tell you something about who they are during a time of trial. The truth will come out. — Leven Rambin
Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth. — Warren G. Bennis
Manufacturing is still very important to us, but we are much more diversified state. And furthermore, anybody that says the steel mills are coming back to Youngstown is not telling the truth. They're not coming back. You could have some aspects of advanced manufacturing appear. — John Kasich
When we tell stories about things that are important - love, fear, beauty - we change the way people think about the world. Writers are, or should be, truth-tellers even when the stories themselves are fantasy. — Theodora Goss
Lying Is Better Than Telling The Truth Quotes
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. — Graham Greene
Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile. — Paulo Coelho
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological. — Robert Breault
Always tell the truth, or the truth will tell on you.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. — H. L. Mencken
Honesty Telling The Truth Quotes
People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise. — Bill Murray
A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. — Austin O'Malley
Declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an idividual has construced a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
All progress starts by telling the truth. — Dan Sullivan
It’s better to eat salty food and speak the truth than to eat vegetarian and tell lies. — Vietnamese Proverbs
I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think its hell.
If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.' — Randy Pausch
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander — Abraham Lincoln
If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory. — Jesse Ventura
Friends Telling The Truth Quotes
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. — Proverbs
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. — Robert Breault
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. — Henry Ward Beecher
Be a best friend. Tell the truth. And overuse "I love you" — Lee Brice
Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you. — Logan Pearsall Smith
When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends. — Mark Twain
Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth, because everyone is creating what they see.
My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.' — Pink
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. — Adlai E. Stevenson
In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play. — Fred Ward
My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way. — Natalie Wood
Saying The Truth Quotes
If the truth is told, the youth can grow
Then learn to survive until they gain control
Nobody says you have to be gangstas, hoes
Read more learn more, change the globe — Nas
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. — Unknown Author
Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you — Lemmy Kilmister
Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel. — Warsan Shire
What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life. — Jimmy Carter
The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else. — Countee Cullen
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. — W. Clement Stone
But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth. — Howard Zinn
I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real. — Jacques Lacan
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. — George Robert Gissing
Knowing The Truth Quotes
Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth.We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not , know the Absolute Truth. — Subhas Chandra Bose
I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me. — Isaac Newton
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. — Eminem
Truth is one, though the sages know it as many . God is one, though different religions approach Him differently Call Him Shiva, Vishnu, Allah, Jesus or any other form of God that you believe in . Our paths may be different. Our destination is the same. — Amish Tripathi
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. — Ian Curtis
I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know. — Bill W.
May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young. — Bob Dylan
Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience. — Jaggi Vasudev
You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress. — Bernie Sanders
Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people. — Al-Ghazali
Speak The Truth Quotes
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth. — Plato
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It does not require many words to speak the truth. — Chief Joseph
There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie. — Cornel West
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. — Adrian Rogers
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth. — Chief Joseph
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. — Mahatma Gandhi
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Children and drunks always speak the truth. — Proverbs
Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird. — Kurt Cobain
Facing The Truth Quotes
Do the right thing because it is right. — Immanuel Kant
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language. — Fulton J. Sheen
You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest. — Tertullian
Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is! — Swami Vivekananda
The real choice we face in this primary is this: Do you want a Super PAC puppet? Or do you want a patriot who speaks the truth? Do you want incremental reform, which is what you're hearing about, or do you want revolution? — Vivek Ramaswamy
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free. — Oprah Winfrey
If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that It is not by might, but by My Spirit. — Jonathan Goforth
It is time to stop waiting for someone to save us. It is time to face the truth of our situation - that we're all in this together, that we all have a voice - and figure out how to mobilize the hearts and minds of everyone in our workplaces and communities. — Margaret J. Wheatley
The day is coming when even the most closed-minded ridiculers will have to face the truth. — David Icke
You never find yourself until you face the truth. — Pearl Bailey
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. — Thomas Sowell
Live your own truth and it won't matter how many lies they tell about you. The truth will prove itself. — Tony Gaskins
I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm. — Septima Poinsette Clark
Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the full use of the tongue. My name makes you want to tell me the truth. My name doesn't allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right. — Warsan Shire
A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth. — Richard Pryor
Therefore, faithful Christian, seek the truth, listen to the truth, learn the truth, love the truth, tell the truth, learn the truth, defend the truth even to death. — Jan Hus
The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us. — Miriam Makeba
Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the court jester, the one soul allowed to tell the truth through laughter. — Joe Randazzo
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies. — Jim Morrison
Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. — Oscar Wilde
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