Hear The Truth Quotes

#1. Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

Thucydides

#2. The world is hungry to hear the truth ... We have it. Are we equal to the task-to the responsibility God has placed upon us?

David O. McKay

#3. The work of the artist is not so much what you say or what you know, it's recognizing what you know. That's what life is about. That's what photography is about. You see something, or you hear someone say something, and you say That is a truth. You know, deep in you. That's when you start shooting.

Sylvia Plachy

#4. One of the glories of education is the opportunity to hear the truth come out of a human being with blood in the veins and air in the lungs, and not just off a printed page.

Douglas Wilson

#5. Whoever said that the truth will set you free was full of shit.

Melyssa Winchester

#6. The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm going to try to tell the truth as well as I know and tell it as eloquently as I can so that people can hear it.

Maya Angelou

#7. Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace.

Diana Wynne Jones

#8. If I could turn down the noise of my own will and choiceI could hear the truth of my life in a clear voice. I will bow down my head to the wisdom of my heart ...

Carrie Newcomer

#9. Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.

George R R Martin

#10. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Chogyam Trungpa

#11. There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

#12. don't just listen to people crying, hear the reasons why they cry

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#13. Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

Horatio Nelson

#14. I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them any displeasure for it, for I do not believe them and I do not decide anything until I have found out the truth.

Antonio De Mendoza

#15. Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.

Roseanne Barr

#16. You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.

Mike Schmidt

#17. It represents a place women go and are left confused because they do not hear the truth about abortion and their choices. They are in a sense abused by the medical procedures that are performed without quality medical instructions/information. It's a tragic place.

Abby Johnson

#18. Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.

Napoleon Hill

#19. I don't know how old you are. But I know the lie you hear. You are too young. You are too old. You don't know enough, or you know too much. The truth is that courage doesn't have an expiration date. Courage doesn't have a marker that says, "You must be taller than THIS to ride this ride.

Annie F. Downs

#20. When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album.

Yanni

#21. The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.

Laura Kreitzer

#22. 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

#23. It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person ...

May Sarton

#24. Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

David Whyte

#25. If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

Frances Wright

#26. Wherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is demonstrably true. Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insi

Hans F. Sennholz

#27. Because you told me the truth, even when you thought it was something I did not want to hear. That is how I know how much you love me. I do not need to be told.

R. Lee Smith

#28. The truth you believe in and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

Pema Chodron

#29. Multitracking keeps egos in check. If your boss has three pet projects in play, chances are she'll be open to unvarnished feedback about them, but if there's only one pet project, it will be harder for her to hear the truth. Her ego will be perfectly conflated with the project.

Chip Heath

#30. People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

Paul Mooney

#31. People don't believe the truth but believe what they constantly hear.

Sunday Adelaja

#32. Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.

Mike Norton

#33. Sometimes during solitude I hear truth spoken with clarity and freshness; uncolored and untranslated it speaks from within myself in a language original but inarticulate, heard only with the soul, and I realize I brought it with me, was never taught it nor can I efficiently teach it to another.

Hugh B. Brown

#34. On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art.

Isabel Fonseca

#35. Just because I say what you want to hear, doesn't mean it's not the truth.

Skye Callahan

#36. I could hear the human noise as were standing still in between the spaces of silence.

Truth Devour

#37. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Marcus Aurelius

#38. there are times when the last thing you want to hear is the truth.

Sherman Alexie

#39. Truth has a certain sound to it. Your spirit will hear it clearly and leap inside of you and you will feel hope; even if your mind is still wrestling with all the pieces.

Yvette R. Dempster

#40. Let me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to do anything that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit.

William Shakespeare

#41. One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, 'Speak truth to power'. Power knows the truth. It's speaking the truth to yourself that's the challenge.

Barry Sanders

#42. Always trust your instinct! If you just close your eyes, talk to God and listen you can always hear the truth

Tammy Johnson

#43. Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can't hear it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#44. What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness.

Sylvia Plath

#45. Now it is as if she can hear the pendulum in the air in front of her: that huge golden bob, as wide across as a barrel, swinging on and on, never stopping. Grooving and regrooving its inhuman truth into the floor.

Anthony Doerr

#46. I don't intend to shrink from the truth, because the longer it's postponed, the harder it will be for them to accept it when they do hear it!

Anne Frank

#47. Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.

Pearl Cleage

#48. When you are relaxed and you hear what you know is the truth, regardless of your experience, you love. You love the truth. You love hearing, knowing, responding to the truth, because all of that is really you.

John De Ruiter

#49. If you don't want your children to know the truth about life don't send 'em to the theater to see Moms 'cause I'm gonna tell them THE TRUTH, hear?

Moms Mabley

#50. The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.

Augusten Burroughs

#51. In truth, the degree of anyone's succes depends on how often they can say the word 'yes' and hear the word 'no.' Those many times you are thwarted yet persevere.

Chuck Palahniuk

#52. We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is - on the brink of catastrophe - torn by polarizing hate, and how it's a shame that we can't work together to get things done, but the truth is we do. We work together to get things done every damn day!

Jon Stewart

#53. You could also hear the other, some young soldier speaking in all bloody innocence, saying, 'All that's just a load, man. We're here to kill gooks. Period.' Which wasn't at all true of me. I was there to watch.

Michael Herr

#54. I love you enough to tell you the truth whether you want to hear it or not, but what you do afterward is your choice alone.

Ashley Ormon

#55. Our response to cruelty, suffering, and sorrow is to remind the world of the face of beauty, which can best restore a man's tranquility, cleanse his hear of evil, and lead him to the path of truth

Anita Amirrezvani

#56. You hear stories about me beating my brains out practising, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn't wait to get up in the morning, so I could hit balls. When I'm hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply, it's a joy that very few people experience.

Ben Hogan

#57. I need to hear the words of this book - its truth, forgiveness, hope - as much as anybody." Nathaniel looked up with an apologetic smile. "I know I'm no great orator. But I ask you to bear with me as I fumble through this new duty.

Julie Klassen

#58. Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.

Michael Cadnum

#59. But man is so partial to systems and abstract conclusions that he is ready to distort the truth, ready to hear nor see anything, as long as he can justify his logic.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#60. I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides. On all known subjects, ranging from aviation to xylophone-playing, I have fixed and invariable ideas. They have not changed since I was four or five.

H.L. Mencken

#61. I have mummy truths to tell
Whereat the living mock,
Though not for sober ear,
For maybe all that hear
Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.

William Butler Yeats

#62. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.

Orson Scott Card

#63. If you listen long enough to the whispers, you will hear the truth. Until then, I will tell you this: the world is made safe by a woman. She bound the monster up and cast him out, and the man who was left was saved.

E.K. Johnston

#64. What interested me was the story of Bennet Omalu. You hear his narrative: Immigrant from Nigeria, landing in Pittsburgh, only to learn and tell the truth about this most American - and sacrosanct - cultural institution: the NFL.

Peter Landesman

#65. One more thing: Philippe, you are not a coward-so what I want to hear from you is the ecstatic truth about the twin towers.

Werner Herzog

#66. Selah Moments: those times we lean into God's presence, hear His voice, and willingly receive the golden nuggets of truth-revelation He gifts us with.

Jo Ann Fore

#67. Yeah, I hear the truth. But this is my truth.

Julie Anne Peters

#68. I am worried about being in love, because it involves asking so much. I am worried that my life will never fit into his. That I will never know him. That he will never know me. That we get to hear the stories, but never get to hear the full truth.

Stephanie Perkins

#69. It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.

Henry David Thoreau

#70. They say that in space no-one can hear you scream. The truth is even more disturbing. In space, no-one can tell that you aren't American.

Andrew Knighton

#71. People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow ... The blues is about truth-telling.

Alberta Hunter

#72. The way to shut us up - to denigrate and destroy the truth we hear and see -is to render us unworthy and unsuccessful and without homes or roots.

Nasdijj

#73. Open your mind a little, don't believe everything you hear, see or read, the world is so caught up in trying to avoid the topics that matter that you'll lose yourself trying to become like it.

Nikki Rowe

#74. I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'

William Sloane Coffin

#75. Proselytizing is a moral imperative and feeds the marketplace of ideas. I want to hear everyone tell the truth as they see it. I want to learn from everyone.

Penn Jillette

#76. Believe what you see with your eyes; trust what you hear with your ears; know what you feel with your flesh. The rest is dream and delusion.

Brian Staveley

#77. It's not enough to hear or think about the truth, we must experience it for ourselves if we are to truly know it.

Mada Eliza Dalian

#78. The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.

Bill Gates

#79. War of words. We are influenced by the western media. But is what we hear the truth or just PR campaigns for governments?

Anne-Rae Vasquez

#80. We don't believe the truth but believe what we continuously hear.

Sunday Adelaja

#81. Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.

Beth Ditto

#82. Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.

Wayne W. Dyer

#83. Eyes blinded by the fog of things cannot see truth. Ears deafened by the din of things cannot hear truth. Brains bewildered by the whirl of things cannot think truth. Hearts deadened by the weight of things cannot feel truth. Throats choked by the dust of things cannot speak truth.

Harold Bell Wright

#84. What else can I say?
You will only hear
what you are ready to hear.
Don't nod your head,
Don't try to fool me
the truth of what you see
is written all over your face!

Rumi

#85. As evangelicals who believe that God has revealed Himself in Scripture, we come to the text not to hear our own voice, but God's voice; not our opinions, but God's truth.

Grant Lovejoy

#86. I do not say words, which you want to hear.
The words just told me, to write them down.

Toba Beta

#87. A lot of the signs are evident before the lies start and the actions deviate. Many women do not even want to hear the truth

A.H. Carlisle III

#88. If you surround yourself with the wrong people, if you surround yourself with people that constantly tell you how great you are and never tell you the truth and just tell you what you want to hear, I would imagine it would be very easy to get above yourself.

Johnny Reid

#89. Always have the guts to tell people the things they must hear. Because your words, no matter how difficult to say, might be the gift to their freedom. Maybe, your unfounded fears were never theirs. Because truth is how people move on.

Shannon L. Alder

#90. What you read in the newspapers, hear on the radio and see on television, is hardly even the truth as seen by experts; it is the wishful thinking of journalists, seen through filters of prejudice and ignorance.

Hans Jurgen Eysenck

#91. In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.

Al Gore

#92. Find the courage to ask yourself the questions your afraid to hear the answer to? Why ... Because it's the only way you'll know which direction your truth lays.

Nikki Rowe

#93. I will tell you something that you don't want to hear: Autumn is ugly! Look at the dying leaves! There is no beauty in dying! Death is always ugly! The beauty of autumn is just an illusion, my friend! Wake up and see the real truth! See the crying leaves!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#94. Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

Luc De Clapiers

#95. People don't like to hear the truth out here cause the truth makes them think.

Steve Harvey

#96. Every once in a while a voice appears that cuts through it all. As Hemmingway said, 'the truth has a certain ring to it.' When you hear the voice of Billy Vaughn you will hear the voice of an American manthe type of American who produces a Navy SEAL.

Michael Savage

#97. For some the truth is too painful to hear. For others, it's a healing balm. This is why I write - to heal.

Kathleen M. Rodgers

#98. The problem is not that we don't recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don't want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#99. A friend is someone that asks, 'how are you,' and really wants to hear the truth.

Tonny K. Brown

#100. Everybody hates lie but nobody wants to hear the truth.

Anurag Bhatt