Top 100 Quotes About Telling The Truth
#1. People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth, and being chased in a fun way.
Amy Poehler
#2. I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.
Jesse Ventura
#3. I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
Edmund White
#4. One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
Ramakrishna
#5. After a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat.
Anne Lamott
#6. I could've sworn I was telling the truth when I told you I didn't miss you.
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#7. As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth - whatever the truth may be - that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.
June Jordan
#8. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris Lessing
#9. Really?" I asked when they were gone. "Did you have to say that?" "I speak my mind, Sage. Don't you believe in telling the truth?
Richelle Mead
#10. Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth.
Larry Kramer
#11. good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep
Anne Lamott
#12. I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.
Pam Houston
#13. The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
A.A. Gill
#15. Adora you're not telling the truth. Go back to your husband and pay gross devotion to your marriage and family. Edochie is an angel. Only agberos would watch football and transfer aggression to their wives, not a captain.
S.A. David
#16. What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?
Robert Redford
#17. Either he's lying, which is bad. Or he could be telling the truth, which is worse
Cinda Williams Chima
#19. Telling the truth will lead you to freedom; telling the lies will lead you to slavery.
Jamison Green
#20. I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.
Jessie Cave
#21. This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.
Ally Condie
#22. It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. Beyond that ... [it's] delight in, and play with, language; also, a curiously intimate way of communicating with people whom you will never meet.
Julian Barnes
#23. Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Spencer Johnson
#24. You don't like it that I am the one you need to keep the wolf from the door; that comes as no surprise. But I am the one you have. At some point we'll both have to risk telling the truth.
Juliet Marillier
#26. Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you can convince yourself you are beautiful. But mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth.
Marissa Meyer
#27. Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It's hard enough to communicate when you're telling the truth.
Karen Marie Moning
#28. The young are not afraid of telling the truth.
Anne Frank
#29. When I forget the power of the word, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget the deep relief of telling the truth, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget to look for the holiness all around me, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget why the gospel matters, I read Frederick Buechner.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#30. Denial may be neither a matter of telling the truth nor intentionally telling a lie. There seem to be states of mind, or even whole cultures, in which we know and don't know at the same time.
Stanley Cohen
#31. There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
Josefina Vazquez Mota
#32. In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act
Aldous Huxley
#33. The problem with liars is they don't believe anyone is capable of telling the truth.
Eric Walters
#34. When you've been lied to your whole life by people, especially men, you learn how to read when people are telling the truth and when they're not.
Kelly Elliott
#35. People who are most interested in telling the truth about others are generally the least interested in having the truth told about themselves.
Mardy Grothe
#36. There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them ... and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.
Stephen King
#37. That's what we do: tell made-up stories to fend off the night, to put off telling the truth.
Bernie Mcgill
#38. When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'
Wendy Cope
#39. If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.
Gerald Vann
#40. Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details of your own experiences and your own life.
Emily Gould
#41. The more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.
Molly Ivins
#42. Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#43. There's an undeniable healing power in telling the truth to someone who validates you by simply listening ... honor washes away the stench of shame.
Jo Ann Fore
#44. Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.
Neal Shusterman
#45. Wilem tapped Simmon's shoulder."He's telling the truth."
Simmon glanced over at him."Why would you say that?"
"He sounds more sincere then that when he lies.
Patrick Rothfuss
#46. A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.
John Steinbeck
#47. So much relies on one person assuming the other is telling the truth. If a person can lie to you about one thing, he can lie about something else.
Meg Rosoff
#48. But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.
Mark Ruffalo
#49. Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.
Bernard Sahlins
#50. Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth.
Bob Arum
#51. No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.
Sara Shepard
#52. Bless them. But don't spend too much time with them. Draw close to people who honor your no, who cheer you on for telling the truth, who value your growth more than they value their own needs getting met or their own pathologies celebrated. Our
Shauna Niequist
#53. There's an old Northlands saying that goes like this: When lies don't help. try telling the truth. Loki knew it well, of course, but preferred his own version, which was: When lies don't help, tell better lies.
Joanne Harris
#54. Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.
Sabrina Ward Harrison
#55. Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone's anything. If he's telling the truth, why does he have such permeability without any government oversight? Is that OK with you?
Henry Rollins
#56. If you agree to work for us, half the time you won't know the purpose of your duties ... and when we do explain, we might not be telling the truth. But that's the real world, folks ...
James Alan Gardner
#58. Even if she were telling the truth, she would somehow manage to appear guilty.
Jennifer E. Smith
#59. What are you suggesting I do Ralph?'
'I'm suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads is trouble.'
"Sometimes that's the only place telling the truth get you, too.
M.L. Stedman
#60. Do you still insist on telling the truth even though you know that it could destroy this world?
Toba Beta
#61. The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.
Megan McCafferty
#62. Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will think, "That sounds good, but I don't believe they're going to do everything they can to build those towers."
Zephyr Teachout
#63. No man who cares about originality will ever be original. It's the man who's only thinking about doing a good job or telling the truth who becomes really original
and doesn't notice it.
C.S. Lewis
#64. 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
#65. That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't stop themselves from spinning it into something better; something prettier, with more of a pattern to it.
Philip Reeve
#66. Telling the truth has always come naturally to me. And I realize, that people like me are the reason the world hates the truth.
Auliq Ice
#67. All you need is one person in a group to be honest, and then slowly, very slowly, everyone else starts telling the truth. That's why our lecturers must be former members of Weight Watchers. They must have lost weight our way.
Jean Nidetch
#68. As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
Bernard Berenson
#69. He knew she had been telling the truth when she told him she seldom asked for help. It was clear in her every interaction with him - in her speech , even in the way she held herself- that she was used to standing alone.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#71. 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
#72. Poorly chosen objects are distractions, obstacles we put in the way when we're afraid of telling the truth.
Lauren Graham
#73. Even through such simple acts as telling the truth, being kind, and encouraging others, we bring a smile to God's face.
Rick Warren
#74. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolucionary act.
George Orwell
#75. I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not, and I've certainly had interviews with people in this radio show I've done that swear they've seen things or have had bizarre experiences with creatures, and so I think they're telling the truth.
Rhys Darby
#76. In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
#77. I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie to you and God knows I am telling the truth. I think all my success and fame and I have wanted it, I have wanted it because I wanted to be loved. That's all. That's the real truth.
Michael Jackson
#78. Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo.
Cornel West
#79. Still, I find lying to be more dangerous than expertly telling the truth, so I avoid it whenever possible.
Drew Hayes
#80. Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.
Isaac Asimov
#82. Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth.
Eva LaRue
#83. [Literature is] the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.
Julian Barnes
#84. Dude, you scared the hell out of us. We thought you were a goner." Harper rocked his head on the pillow. "Nah. Takes more than a couple bullets to take me out." Chad laughed. "I remember you saying you were an iron man when we hired you, but I didn't think you were telling the truth." Harper
J.M. Madden
#85. The story of undocumented immigrants in this country is not just about undocumented immigrants. It's about the country as a whole, and it's about us being able to tell the truth about where we are with this issue because we haven't been telling the truth about where we are with this issue.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#86. Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.
Adrian Tan
#87. In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
Peter Matthiessen
#88. If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap.
Richard Belzer
#89. I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#90. I don't know how Angela will react to that, and this is why it's so hard telling the truth. People don't have a standard reaction. People aren't a chemistry experiment you can tinker with until the proportions are just right. People are terrifying that way.
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
#91. There's a part in a woman's soul, God has given it to every woman, and it's the part where you know whether he's telling the truth or not. Women see red flags.
Jessica White
#92. Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
June Jordan
#93. I mean, why would a God create all of us and put us here if we were supposed to go around feeling bad about ourselves and pretending to be somebody we're not? How is hiding who you are telling the truth?
Aaron Hartzler
#94. I learned that telling the truth was a big part of loving yourself.
Iyanla Vanzant
#95. She seemed to be trying to take in what Kay had said to her: this bizarre, dangerous advice about telling the truth
J.K. Rowling
#96. Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let alone the whole truth. Spoken words are facts in themselves, whether true or false. When people talk they reveal themselves, whether they're lying or telling the truth.
Halldor Laxness
#97. Everyone's always making fun of him and calling him crazy behind his back, but I can kind of understand how someone would end up that way. I mean, if no one ever pays attention to you telling the truth, then it probably makes sense to try lying for a change.
Amy Reed
#98. He wrote: 'We make ourselves real by telling the truth
Geoffrey Durham
#99. If you start telling the truth it will sound leftist to people on the right, rightist to people on the left, and insane to the insane.
Euphrates Arnaut Moss
#100. Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
Harry Truman
