Top 100 Always Tell The Truth Quotes
#1. You must always, always tell the truth. If you are mad, say so. If someone asks you anything, try to find the exact words to describe what you have to say. If you try to tell the exact truth, always, you will ground yourself, become yourself. The truth connects you. It hooks you back up.
George Hodgman
#2. I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?
Gary Sheffield
#3. As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.
Harper Lee
#4. I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
Ted Cruz
#5. You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.
Gore Vidal
#6. He said, 'are you telling the truth?'
I said, 'Yes. I always tell the truth.
Mark Haddon
#7. The best liars always tell the truth - they just choose which parts.
Mark Lawrence
#8. Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.
Ronald Knox
#9. The best advice you can give others is to always tell the truth.
Ramona Matta
#11. Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
David Mamet
#12. All successful marriages are based on some necessary hypocrisies. It's only the unsuccessful ones where people always tell the truth to each other. The
Philip Kerr
#13. We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.
Dan Ariely
#14. Bodies always tell the truth. They give us hints of how to listen for it, and to recognize it when we hear or see it.
Robin Rose Bennett
#15. I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind.
Eugene Delacroix
#16. One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed.
Robert Breault
#17. Always tell the Truth : where it is not loved, it is respected and feared.
Thomas Fuller
#19. A writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)
Gore Vidal
#20. Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
Sam Rayburn
#21. Always tell the truth, good or bad, but never when it's unnecessary.
Derrick
#22. Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.
NeNe Leakes
#23. If I have taught my sons anything in life, it is to have integrity - to always tell the truth, and I believe they have.
Leonard N. Stern
#25. I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
Sigmund Freud
#26. Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything
Mark Twain
#27. I always tell the truth, so I don't need a good memory to remember what I said") - in
Robert A. Caro
#29. always tell the truth and you'll never have to remember your words.
Kiki Archer
#30. I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
Al Pacino
#31. 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
#32. But even the facts do not always tell the truth
Paul Auster
#34. I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.
Albert Finney
#35. Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.
Louise Fitzhugh
#37. The city's more beautiful at night, you know: the people of the night always tell the truth.
Orhan Pamuk
#38. I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.
Katherine Applegate
#39. I always tell the truth about what I'm selling, and then nobody buys it.
Orson Scott Card
#40. Unfortunately, people who always tell the truth don't have many friends.
Eraldo Banovac
#41. I'd said I didn't always tell the truth, that I didn't handle conflict well, that anger scared me, that I was used to people just disappearing when they were mad.
Sarah Dessen
#42. I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.
Katy Perry
#43. I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.
Antonio Banderas
#44. To tell the truth, it is regarding the physical side of marriage that I have always been apprehensive...There so seldom seems to be enough of it," said Miss Teatime.
Colin Watson
#45. People want biography. People want memoir. They want you to tell them that the story you're telling them is true. The thing I'm telling you is true, but it did not always happen to me.
Dorothy Allison
#46. Theologians are all alike, of whatever religion or country they may be; their aim is always to wield despotic authority over men's consciences; they therefore persecute all of us who have the temerity to tell the truth.
Frederick The Great
#47. Why can't a woman be a little cooler in her emotions and a little quieter and more repressed without it being a huge thing? I've actually always quite enjoyed that, to tell you the truth.
Anna Torv
#48. I'll tell you what my mother always said. 'When it comes to marriage, if both don't win, nobody wins.' The longer I lived with your dad, the more I saw the truth in that. In the end, nobody won." "Well,
Terrie Todd
#49. Reason, indeed, may oft complain For Nature's sad reality, And tell the suffering heart how vain Its cherished dreams must always be; And Truth may rudely trample down The flowers of Fancy, newly-blown:
Charlotte Bronte
#50. Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.
Alice Sebold
#51. The truth is there's always been someone to tell me what to do. The church. The people who I work for. The caseworker. And I can't stand the idea of being alone. I can't bear the thought of being free.
Survivor
Chuck Palahniuk
#52. Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
Kara Swisher
#53. Any attorney with a conscience always speaks the truth. An attorney can and should practice law in a scrupulous manner, but some dishonest attorneys disregard ethical mandates in order to win. Unethical attorneys shape their clients stories, which is a fancy way of assisting them tell a fib.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#54. That was the trouble with not being right in the head. You couldn't always tell if your eyes were telling the truth.
Christina Henry
#55. God walks 'round in muddy boots, sometimes rags and that's the truth. You can't always tell but sometimes you just know. " From Geodes
Carrie Newcomer
#56. Stormy Llewellyn didn't want a pedestal. She wanted only someone who would look her straight in the eyes and always tell her the truth.
Dean Koontz
#57. I wish you'd tell the truth, but since I know that isn't preferable--"
"The truth is always preferable, my dear. It's just not always wise.
Sabrina Jeffries
#58. To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.
Artie Lange
#59. Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to guide us - to help us find that truth, not to tell us what it is.
Andrew Kaufman
#60. Thing is, I don't really like free time. People are always warning me that I'm going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that tires me out is hearing people tell me that.
Michael Strahan
#61. The forces are there, we cannot will them away. All we can do is learn to live with them. And we cannot learn this unless we are willing to tell the truth about ourselves, and the truth about us is always at variance with what we wish to be.
Unknown
#62. Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.
Ben Carson
#63. That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
James Marshall
#64. Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#65. If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication or death. Give some child, some thirteen-year old, the hope of the remade life. Tell the truth. Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you there is magic in it.
Dorothy Allison
#66. He always told the truth, but he didn't always tell it all.
Orson Scott Card
#67. It's always the people who strive to find, and tell you about one of your imperfections, that want to feel one step above you. The truth is their ten steps below you with nothing better to say.
Ron Baratono
#68. People are always warning me that I'm going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that tires me out is hearing people tell me that. Opposite shows, opposite coasts, opposite demographics, opposite everything - I love it, man!
Michael Strahan
#69. It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!
Jordin Sparks
#70. Pope John Paul II spoke with a lot of clarity and consistency. But he always spoke with immense compassion. He's the one who said the best way to love somebody is to tell them the truth. So, he did that well.
Chris Matthews
#71. I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
Anais Nin
#72. So I always think it's 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
#73. People don't always tell you the truth about how they feel. And the truth is, it may not be the same as how you feel.
Kate Le Vann
#74. Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#75. Always communicate no matter how hard it is to tell someone something's wrong. It's worse not to talk about it. I learn this every few years. The truth hurts for 3 days. Lack of truth hurts your whole life.
James Marsters
#76. Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#77. I was starting to realize the extent of the problem here: everyone is always lying to each other, and even when they're trying to tell the truth, it can still be misleading or wrong. In fact, it almost always is wrong from at least one angle. I mean, the truth is really just a better class of lie.
Frank Portman
#78. THE MISCONCEPTION: You calculate what is risky or rewarding and always choose to maximize gains while minimizing losses. THE TRUTH: You depend on emotions to tell you if something is good or bad, greatly overestimate rewards, and tend to stick to your first impressions.
David McRaney
#79. Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don't.
Louis C.K.
#80. People are always gonna talk, and to tell you the truth I love it. I love the attention. I do what I do because it puts a smile on my face, and I'm the only one in the world that matters.
Jenna Jameson
#81. I've always been inspired by Genet, Henry Miller and Hubert Selby, Jr., who taught me that you've got to tell a bigger truth in whatever you're doing, but the truth is not popular.
Lydia Lunch
#82. Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
Robert M. Pirsig
#83. 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
#84. For reasons I can only guess, my mother always instructed me that it was impolite to tell the truth ... Whatever she lacked in versimilitude, she more than made up for in stealth.
Phillip DePoy
#85. My dad has a great expression. He always says, 'Tell me a fact and I'll learn, tell me the truth and I believe, but tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.' Interestingly enough now, my dad's story is going to be in Canton and hopefully that will live forever, too.
Steve Sabol
#86. I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.
Anne Bronte
#87. This I have always known - that if I did not live my life immersed in the one activity which suits me, and which also, to tell the truth, keeps me utterly happy and intrigued, I would come someday to bitter and mortal regret.
Mary Oliver
#88. Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same.
Richard Mitchell
#89. People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding.
But if that's true, why do they always find us?
David Levithan
#90. People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
P. J. O'Rourke
#91. Love ... I put so much faith in it. Truth ... I kept believing it falls always from the lips of the one you love and trust the most. Faith ... it's all bound up to love and trust. Where does one end and the other start, and how do you tell when love is the blindest of all?
V.C. Andrews
#92. I don't think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can't do that until you're 85, and I don't want to live that long. I've always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way.
Lucille Ball
#93. To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.
Harold Russell
#94. If you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.
Stephen King
#95. It always feels good to tell you the truth. If I can't share it with you, it feels like it didn't happen.
Ione Skye
#96. When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and it fear loss. Ask your heart if attachment has replaced love. If we speak to our heart, it will always tell us the truth.
Jack Kornfield
#97. How do you choose your books?' my friends had asked. Less than a week into my project, I can now tell them the beginning of the truth. I don't always choose the books, I'll say. Sometimes the books choose me.
Sara Nelson
#98. Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
Coco Chanel
#100. There are many different stories to tell. It's never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes it is stripped down to a single essential truth, the thing that is always believed, no matter what. The seeds from which the garden has grown.
Helen Humphreys
