Quotes About Speak The Truth

#1. I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.

Audre Lorde

#2. It's important for someone like me - who's known Obama for 20 years - to speak the truth. I know him to be a Christian man. I know him to be one of the greatest patriots.

Hill Harper

#3. We must seize every opportunity we can to speak the truth and proclaim peace. Especially now. There's so little time for many.

Francine Rivers

#4. There is something more than violence that Nasheenians taught me, and that is the awful brutality of speaking absolute truth. I propose that we begin to unmask ourselves. We speak the truth of ourselves. We tell them just how many of us there are.

Kameron Hurley

#5. It is now or never," said the yew tree. "You must speak the truth.

Patrick Ness

#6. Nay, if we may openly speak the truth, and as becomes one man to another, neither Pagan nor Mahometan, nor Jew, ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the commonwealth because of his religion.

John Locke

#7. We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#8. People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

David Duchovny

#9. Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Confucius

#10. Always speak the truth.

George Washington

#11. I believe the American people are looking for someone to speak the truth.

Ted Cruz

#12. Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.

Seth

#13. It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

Sargent Shriver

#14. The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

Herodotus

#15. There is a deep power in words that speak the truth

P.C. Cast

#16. Those who speak the truth in this world; they fall out of favor, in the current era of inflated lies.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#17. Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth.

Erich Fromm

#18. The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can't be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

Alan Garner

#19. I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.

Henry Ward Beecher

#20. When you got a question," Polly said before Granada could ask, "first be silent. Look around you. Let creation speak the truth to you." She

Jonathan Odell

#21. If you want to resolve a dispute or come out from conflict, the very first thing is to speak the truth. If you have a headache and tell the doctor you have a stomachache, how can the doctor help? You must speak the truth. The truth will abolish fear.

Ziauddin Yousafzai

#22. I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.

John C. Maxwell

#24. Do not oppose because in opposing the tenderness of the feeling level is crushed. That is why we say Speak the Truth but see that you are speaking delicately. Do not speak non-truth and do not speak in a non sweet way, so that the feeling is nourished.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#25. My admiration stranger within our gates, who hesitates not to speak the truth.

George S. Clason

#26. Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Aristotle.

#27. If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Bruce Lee

#28. We can only speak the truth that we know at the time it is known.

Sharon Lee

#29. There are people that know the truth but stay silent & there are people that speak the truth but we don't hear them cuz they're the minority.

Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev

#30. Sometimes distortions can speak the truth. They confirm for me what is real by troubling me with something false.

Jeffrey Overstreet

#31. Truth is never wrong but it is in the telling of the truth that a person can be right or wrong
Truth can be told so that it helps or hurts another, Therefore speak the truth in love ... Our words Should b a blend of truth and love ...

Tanu Reshma B Singh

#32. May I never grow so strong that my heart cannot be moved.
May I never grow so weak that I fear to speak the truth.

Margaret Becker

#33. We demand that sex speak the truth [ ... ] and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves wich we think we possess in our immediate consciousness.

Michel Foucault

#34. Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.

William Penn

#35. I came not from within the administration, and it was clear and clear in our discussions and no one asked otherwise that I would lead this the way I thought best and I would speak the truth as we found it.

David Kay

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

Henry David Thoreau

#37. Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

Lucy Stone

#38. Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

#39. Theo nodded slowly. "You love Balanchine chocolate like I love cacao."
"I wouldn't say love, Theo."
"No, you speak the truth. Love isn't right. It isn't right for me either. Sometimes I hate cacao." Theo looked at me. "You don't love Balanchine chocolate. You are Balanchine chocolate.

Gabrielle Zevin

#40. Shaquille O'Neal has always been one to speak the truth.

Shaquille O'Neal

#41. I got a certain type of respect in the streets, that's why they call me Tha Truth. And I gotta speak the truth. I gotta stand up for what's right. Every great person and true soldier has a great story to tell and this is a part of my story.

Trae Tha Truth

#42. A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.

Richard Sibbes

#43. Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.

Saint Augustine

#44. A wise man never asks what another man serves, for only his actions will speak the truth.

Seneca.

#45. If you speak the truth, you spoil the game.

Mike Caro

#46. I'm a big believer that good policy is good politics. And so, when it comes to making decisions on policy issues, what I endeavor to do is simply speak the truth.

Ted Cruz

#47. Monsieur Beulier never engaged in thought except to speak the truth, and never spoke except to express his thought.

Marcel Proust

#48. In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Boris Pasternak

#49. It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from 'the wise man's mouth' but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.

J.M. Coetzee

#50. The standing fields [ready to harvest]were the legions who hadn't filled their God-vacuum with the One who was born to fill it; the standing fields were those who waited for someone to reach out and speak the truth, and tell them how they might be saved.

Jan Karon

#51. I go about saying how pained and tormented, how lonely and sad I feel, but what do I really mean by that? If I were to speak the truth, I would die.

Osamu Dazai

#52. It takes courage to become authentic. So many talk about the light but not enough speak the truth about the struggles it takes to get there and the tools to overcome it all.

Nikki Rowe

#53. We speak the truth because we live in truth.

Jose Luis Ruiz

#54. All the real secrets are buried, and only ghosts speak the truth.

Anthony Hyde

#55. Speak the truth in a million voices. It is silence that kills.

Catherine Of Siena

#56. When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust ... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad ...

Abdul Kalam

#57. Speak the truth.
Give whatever you can.
Never be angry.
These three steps will lead you
Into the presence of the gods.

Gautama Buddha

#58. The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth.

Walter Raleigh

#59. Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do

Rakim

#60. First I anger Edmure, and now Robb, but all I have done is speak the truth. Are men so fragile they cannot bear to hear it?

George R R Martin

#61. The two of them are like open books, they speak the truth at the risk of their own lives, and when they keep silent their thoughts blaze like a beacon from their eyes.

Juliet Marillier

#62. You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself

Terry Goodkind

#63. I try to, in my own fallible way, speak the truth.

Cornel West

#64. The man looked up distrustfully. "If you speak the truth," said he, "I lose nothing when I lose my life. I am not much more than an animal which has been taught to dance by blows and a few scraps of food.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#65. Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else's point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.

Sheryl Sandberg

#66. May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#67. Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

Silius Italicus

#68. The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.

Samuel Johnson

#69. Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#70. For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

John Bunyan

#71. Children and fools always speak the truth.

Mark Twain

#72. Truth is fire, and to speak the truth means to shine and to burn

Leopold Schefer

#73. He said you were very dangerous."
"No more dangerous than anyone else who dares to speak the truth.

Jasper Fforde

#74. The gist of what Mayor Giuliani said
that the President has shown himself to be completely unable to speak the truth about the nature of the threats from these ISIS terrorists - is true.

Bobby Jindal

#75. A quiet mind is one that is willing to speak the truth that is felt internally. It is a mind that has not yet been conditioned to accept a reality that is being imposed upon it by well-meaning adults and cultural and religious teachings.

Wayne Dyer

#76. If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Amy Carmichael

#77. but on Barsoom no man lies; if he does not wish to speak the truth he is silent.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#78. I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it.

Jaggi Vasudev

#79. Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#80. Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.

Gautama Buddha

#81. Because I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you. I've often done it over contracts. And it's also a good thing to seem stupider than you are.

Agatha Christie

#82. I have become cynical because I speak the truth.

Amit Abraham

#83. It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Arthur Balfour

#84. I think wherever we are, we can create an atmosphere of openness and trust, where women and those who feel marginalized feel safe to speak the truth of their lives.

Terry Tempest Williams

#85. Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.

Michael Jackson

#86. To love what we say, it must be true. To want to speak the truth, it must be loved.

Fulton J. Sheen

#87. What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone.

Ted Cruz

#88. Embrace the truth. Speak the truth. Be the truth. When we welcome the truth, we live our lives like it's golden.

Iyanla Vanzant

#89. I have wondered that even in the era of colour the black and white photographs are so appealing? I feel that as per saying - in black and white -they speak the truth.

Amit Abraham

#90. To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.

Maxim Gorky

#91. Take care,' said Delaura. 'Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand.'
'Saint Thomas said it, and I will be guided by him,' said the Abbess: 'One must not believe demons even when they speak the truth.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#92. I'm gonna speak the truth until the day I die!

Jeffree Star

#93. It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#94. Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Richard M. Nixon

#95. Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

Anthony De Mello

#96. In order for peace to reign, one must speak the truth, and that is why I have spoken of a political abduction, ... Far from my own country, but in deep communion with all Haitians, including Haitians abroad, I continue to launch an appeal for peaceful resistance.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#97. Political correctness jeopardizes more than it should the human capacity to speak the truth,

Karl Barth

#98. It is not our job to defeat those we disagree with. Instead, we are to speak the truth in love with respect, honor, and compassion for the listener

Dave Burchett

#99. Eyes are brave. They speak the truth when the lips lie.

Sabine Shah

#100. Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.

William Ellery Channing