Top 100 Quotes About Speak The Truth
#1. Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.
Orrin Woodward
#2. Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or death, success or failure. All transformation starts with what comes from our mouth.
Brandi L. Bates
#3. Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#4. Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird.
Kurt Cobain
#5. Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.
Thomas Sowell
#7. You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
Cornel West
#8. According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his ability to ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth. Perhaps we should now grant our college degrees to young men who measure up to that standard.
Jeff Cooper
#9. Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians.
Marie Colvin
#10. I thought it was important to speak about what I believe would be the right response to Russian aggression in Ukraine. I'm pleased to hear there is more sanctions maybe coming tomorrow. But the truth of the matter is I think we need less talk and more deeds.
Mike Pence
#11. I have every right. You were born to be mine. And you wish to deny me the right to say how I feel, to speak the truth?
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#12. The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
George Orwell
#14. It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous
Agona Apell
#15. To speak truth, reader, there is no excellent beauty, no accomplished grace, no refinement, without strength as excellent, as complete, as trustworthy.
Charlotte Bronte
#17. Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
John Galsworthy
#18. Your actions, not your feelings, speak the truth of your intent." Richard
Terry Goodkind
#19. It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.
Barbara Marciniak
#20. Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful.
George Sand
#21. In the adversarial system, it's more important to follow legal procedure than to speak the truth.
Jon Krakauer
#22. I wish there is a world where any one can know the truth and speak there mind with freedom without having to fear for their lives (Rinko, Basara, Vol. 13)
Yumi Tamura
#23. There's a convention that one doesn't speak ill of the dead. That's stupid, I think. The truth's always the truth. On the whole it's better to keep your mouth shut about living people. You might conceivably injure them. The dead are past that. But the harm they've done lives after them sometimes.
Agatha Christie
#24. Sometimes people don't like me because I'm too honest; I speak the truth.
The Mighty Hannibal
#25. I willingly accept Cassandra's fate
To speak the truth, although believed too late.
Anne Killigrew
#26. I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
George McGovern
#27. A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#29. Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is marked by a sense of wonder. We stand before the God we know and love as a friend, the vastness of his creation, and the beauty of our Christian faith.
Pope Benedict XVI
#30. A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won't want to gossip.
Elizabeth George
#31. Be brave and upright that God may love thee; speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death; safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath.
Balian Of Ibelin
#32. Although I speak very highly of Marines, whether they are enlisted or officers, there always seems to be a statistical anomaly when it comes to the ratio of shitbags to non-shitbags everywhere in the world.
Jeffrey Sands
#33. Prepare for joy - speak your truth, care for yourself, expand your knowledge, nurture your friendships, let people love you, take on new adventures, go where your heart leads you.
Charlotte Sophia Kasl
#34. It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.
Mother Angelica
#35. Public faith means going public with what's in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.
Timothy Keller
#36. It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.
E. M. Forster
#37. You speak from your heart, young Firepaw. This will make you a stronger warrior one day." said Lionheart
Tigerclaw growled. "Or it might make him give in to kittypet weakness right at the moment of attack
Erin Hunter
#38. When liars speak the truth, they are not believed. - ARISTOTLE (384 - 322 BC)
Bradford G. Wheler
#39. It's not enough to listen to their words. You have to mine their silences for buried ore. It's often only in the lies that we refuse to speak that truth can be heard at all.
Karen Marie Moning
#40. In all your dealings with one another, speak the truth in love, that you may grow up.
Anonymous
#41. I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.
Martin Luther
#42. Men understand direct communication. It's bitches who speak in code.
Kristen Ashley
#43. He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#44. Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#45. Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.
Sue Monk Kidd
#46. Speak truth and believe in the power of truth, the more you will believe in yourself, the more you will see the beauty of nature and mother earth.
Santosh Kalwar
#47. When there is an issue, I approach it and hit it head on. I speak the truth. If I do something wrong, then I own it.
Teresa Giudice
#48. It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Chief Joseph
#50. BELINDA: People say you shouldn't speak ill of the dead. I say tell the truth. The dead will know what God will tell them. So start talking.
Billy London
#51. We must speak the truth if we are to be a great nation
Imran Khan
#52. ...too often it's only children and old people who speak the truth. You just have to slow down and listen.
Eve Chase
#53. There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but they cannot be seen - they are immaterial, but no less real, to us. It is only through the language of myth that we can speak of these truths.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#54. It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
Neil Gaiman
#55. 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
#56. Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.
William Hazlitt
#57. Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can't speak for itself, it's not truth.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#58. If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.
Chogyam Trungpa
#59. To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.
John Lancaster Spalding
#60. We speak much of God, and talk of him, his ways, his works; the truth is, we know very little of him.
John Owen
#61. Goddamn it; speak your mind whether the truth will hurt, feel deeply regardless of the pain you fear, do accordingly in seek of your dreams whilst including the uphill struggles ... Life isn't a a fairytale but it is if you make it one.
Nikki Rowe
#62. I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
Laura Esquivel
#63. I don't pretend to make my photographs speak the truth of what Mexico is all about. But in its villages I can feel the way culture is changing, and it's fascinating to live through it and try to capture it on camera.
Graciela Iturbide
#64. The soul-Self doesn't follow the crowd. It encourages you to speak up when you need to and live by your truth.
Debra Moffitt
#65. That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.
Carson McCullers
#67. One should not hurt others even by words. One must not speak an unpleasant truth unnecessarily.
Sarada Devi
#68. It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
Michel Foucault
#69. It is a detestable vice not entirely limited to children. Always speak the truth, all the truth in all things at all times! No man ever rose to greatness on the wings of obsequious deceit.
Rick Yancey
#70. It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
Saint Francis De Sales
#71. Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.
Publilius Syrus
#73. My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones.
Edmond Rostand
#74. They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.
Jeff Lindsay
#75. We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.
Margaret Guenther
#76. Be in the spirit of Truth and any words you speak are in alignment with that spirit.
Mooji
#77. Why are you always filming people?"
"I'm busy documenting a thousand stories about Johannesburg."
"Oral histories?"
"No, stories. People don't always speak the truth.
Harry Kalmer
#78. He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.
Anthony Trollope
#79. While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.
Amy Tan
#80. Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age
August Sander
#81. When governments murder those who speak the truth, it is time to get new governments.
Diane Duane
#82. It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies; but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it.
George Henry Lewes
#83. There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.
Suzy Kassem
#84. As long as you are pure of heart, you speak the truth.
Umar
#85. This morning I woke up, how blessed I am
Eyes to see, a voice to speak
Words to read and love to feel?
If this isn't something to be thankful for, I'm not sure what is.
Nikki Rowe
#86. The religion of both Old and New Testaments is marked by fervent outspoken testimonies against evil. To speak smooth things in such a case may be sentimentalism, but it is not Christianity. It is a betrayal of the cause of truth and righteousness.
Charles Spurgeon
#87. The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.
Steve Aylett
#88. O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#89. Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#90. To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.
Cornel West
#91. The problem isn't that they all speak bad about me. The problem is that they all feel comfortable speaking bad about me to you.
Monika Ramzy
#92. The shaykh interrupted him, saying, Not so fast. I'm the sort of person who praises only to clear the way to speak the truth, for the sake of encouragement, son of Abd al-Jawad
Naguib Mahfouz
#93. If you speak the truth, the monster whispered in his ear, you will be able to face whatever comes.
Patrick Ness
#94. A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.
Saul Bellow
#95. I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
Oscar Wilde
#96. If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.
Jodi Picoult
#97. I tilted my face forward, unable to speak the lie that would make him go away, or the truth that would make him stay. - Shadowborn
Jocelyn Adams
#98. Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?
Jodi Picoult
#99. As a preacher who is fully human, and clearly not divine, I can't speak as Jesus did. But I do seek to speak truth that carries weight and authority. All of us who preach the gospel aspire to speak under the authority of Jesus.
John Ortberg
#100. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.
Vincent D'Onofrio
