Top 100 Quotes About Tell The Truth
#1. These are people that are gonna vote for Hillary Clinton. They couldn't care less that she is sleazy. They couldn't care less that she cannot tell the truth. They couldn't care less that she exposes this nation to great risk.
Rush Limbaugh
#2. Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.
Ellen Bass
#3. WikiLeaks serves as a back-up for those who want to tell the truth about the inner workings of government when the mainstream media is not willing or taking too long to publish.
Daniel Ellsberg
#4. I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom comes when you tell your story; freedom comes when you tell the truth.
Eve Ensler
#5. I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth
Richard M. Nixon
#6. Sometimes you have to tell the truth about some of the stuff you've done so that people will believe you when you tell them the truth about other stuff you haven't done.
Brock Clarke
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Great men tell the truth and are never believed. Lesser men are always believed, but seldom have the brains or the courage to tell the truth.
Kenneth Roberts
#11. It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.
George D. Prentice
#12. It doesn't matter what race you are. It doesn't matter what religion you are. I always tell people: If you want to be a part of hip-hop, you just need to have a heart. You need to have the courage to tell the truth.
Immortal Technique
#13. 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
#14. To tell the truth, I couldn't care less about the relativity of knowledge, simply because the world does not deserve to be known.
Emil Cioran
#15. Brian Andreas Promise #1:
Promises to Myself #1: I will tell the truth unless I get confused & I think I could get in real trouble if someone found out, in which case, I will lie as convincingly as possible for as long as I feel the need.
Brian Andreas
#16. I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'
Elaine Stritch
#17. I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.
P. J. O'Rourke
#18. When in doubt, tell the truth. When in pain, listen to the wind.
Nanao Sakaki
#19. If you like someone, you tell the truth because that, to me, is respect. If you hate someone, you tell them the truth because what do you have to lose?
Tara Kelly
#20. The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.
Herbert Hoover
#21. I am never frightened when I tell the truth.
Malalai Joya
#22. You must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this.
Anne Lamott
#23. I love how simple this is for her. I love that her solution to everything is to tell the truth. I struggle with my identity and she tells me just to say what's true.
Nicola Yoon
#24. Everyone hopes it will be easier for kids. Maybe the goal in America is to have an easy life, and so we find it too disgraceful to tell the truth.
Matthew Quick
#25. I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.
Patrick Marber
#26. 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,
#27. To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants ... Life has become impossible.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
#28. It's dangerous to tell the truth, truth without power is always dangerous. And we should fight! Freedom's not an idea, it's a passion! If you haven't got it you fight like a fish out of water fighting for air!
Edward Bond
#29. It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.
Randi Rhodes
#30. I don't really like lies. I prefer to tell the truth whenever possible. It's much easier to keep track of.
Morgan Rhodes
#31. I have risked everything to tell the truth. Tell the truth
Maya Angelou
#33. In my experience, honest people don't need to put their hand on a Bible to tell the truth, and with dishonest people, it makes no difference.
Paul Levine
#34. People can only tell the truth as they see it.
Edna Robinson
#35. Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
Paul Auster
#36. You told me to tell the truth, and this is exactly why I didn't want to. You want me to think I'm selfish."
"I want you to own your thoughts and actions, and not be afraid of them. Accepting your limitations is every bit as important as embracing your strengths.
Dawn Jayne
#37. I've lied all my life. I'm just now learning how to tell the truth, and I'm not going to start playing games again, especially not with you.
Collette West
#38. Speech: 1. Tell the truth. Don't lie or turn the truth upside down. 2. Don't exaggerate. 3. Be consistent. This means no double-talk: speaking about something in one way to one person and in an opposite way to another for selfish or manipulative reasons.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#39. The message is now seared in my mind: To tell the truth is to lie; to lie is to tell the truth.
Chris Lemig
#41. The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth ... But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.
Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling
#42. For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said.
Alastair Campbell
#43. Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.
Brad Blanton
#44. It's not a lie if you don't tell the truth.
But it's fucked up if you falsify the fact.
Toba Beta
#45. If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
Larry David
#46. We must begin to train lawyers the minute they walk into law school to tell the truth. They must immediately begin to learn the business of representing people. They must be assigned cases the first day.
Gerry Spence
#47. If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.
Jesse Ventura
#48. I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.
Kylie Bax
#49. Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.
Edward Snowden
#50. What was she like?"
I tell the truth.
"She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I'm sitting here, I think about her. There could never be another.
Nicholas Sparks
#51. I tell the truth through music. Other people tend to catch on and agree with my truth and it turns out we are all really similar.
SZA
#52. History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.
Miguel Syjuco
#53. I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
David Lindsay-Abaire
#54. If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
Mark Twain
#55. Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
Zadie Smith
#58. When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
William Blake
#59. I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.
Burt Bacharach
#60. I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict ... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.
Nora Ephron
#61. Sometimes you tell the truth, and things are better for it. Other times truth hangs in the air like a fog, clouding the pretty lies.
David Arnold
#63. But even the facts do not always tell the truth
Paul Auster
#64. The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth ... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification.
Susan Sontag
#65. We long for our churches to be safe places to doubt, to ask questions, and to tell the truth, even when it's uncomfortable.
Rachel Held Evans
#66. I've realized why I don't tell the truth in interviews. It's because they're printed months later, and you change so quickly - you have new thoughts, new everything - so people are reading an old version of you.
Nicholas Hoult
#67. Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.
Marcello Mastroianni
#68. But my parents had taught me that everybody deserved respect, no matter if they were pansies or not, and to tell the truth, I was nothing to write home about in the physical looks department.
Robert McCammon
#69. My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.
Gerry Spence
#70. I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.
Mark Twain
#71. Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating.
David Ogilvy
#72. I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.
Kris Kristofferson
#73. People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.
Cate Blanchett
#74. I leave a lot out when I tell the truth. The same when I write a story.
Amy Hempel
#75. Do I detect a renewal of your fighting spirit? I'm so glad. To tell the truth, I've been getting quite bored. Bring it on, Grace--I'm waiting for you.
B.A. Paris
#76. It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
Zadie Smith
#77. This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.
Lee Grant
#78. My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
W. H. Auden
#79. For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.
Taylor Schilling
#80. I found that stiffly saluting member, of which he was so proud, rather frightening, and to tell the truth I found his pride slightly comical. I thought that that must be embarrassing for him, and thought how much more pleasant it was to be a girl. That, by the way, is an opinion I still hold today.
Anne Desclos
#81. You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
Charles Olson
#83. A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
Robert Kiyosaki
#85. 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
#86. Any time you catch folks lying, they are scared of something. Lying is dodging. People with guts don't lie. They tell the truth and then if they have to, they fight it out. You lay yourself open by lying..Nothing can lick you if you never get scared.
Zora Neale Hurston
#87. If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
Sam Kinison
#88. People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
Eric Idle
#89. Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself.
Iyanla Vanzant
#90. If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles George Gordon
#91. There is a great deal at stake here, many writers fight this battle and most lose it. what is at stake for the writer? freedom of invention, freedom to tell the truth, in all its particulars, freedom to imagine new structures.
Andrea Dworkin
#92. 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
#93. To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.
Roman Abramovich
#94. I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is because they only tell the truth, and the truth is not what people want to hear. it is a bad thing and it troubles people, so they do not come back.
Neil Gaiman
#95. Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.
Lena Waithe
#96. I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
Al Pacino
#97. 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
#98. The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#99. It's hard to tell the truth, and yet the truth is that she's the one who's rejected me.
Anne Frank
#100. I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.
Muhammad Iqbal
