Top 100 Quotes About Telling Truth
#1. Personally, I felt terrible for telling Truth my name was Schnitzeldoodle. I still think about it. Sometimes I just have to rock myself back and forth and say, You've offended so many people at this point. Don't try to keep track now, girl.
Chelsea Handler
#2. In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.
Lauren Groff
#3. Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
James E. Faust
#4. I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
John Dryden
#5. To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.
Sammy Sosa
#6. The truth shouldn't be told only when it's convenient. Honesty must be a way of life.
Frank Sonnenberg
#7. What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.
Jane Wiedlin
#8. Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.
Tom Waits
#9. Once I had feared that telling the truth would be like falling, that love would be like hitting the ground, but here I was, my feet firmly planted, standing on my own.
Rachel Hartman
#11. The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us ...
Miriam Makeba
#12. Telling the truth after proper investigation is the height of courage.
Wafa Sultan
#13. They suppress the truth rather than take the consequence of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.
Frederick Douglass
#14. 'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.
Chris Crutcher
#15. Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#16. Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.
David Mitchell
#17. But as a wise and great teacher once explained so patiently, all good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling-these stories always contain truth.
Camron Wright
#18. The elegant Lord Shaftesbury somewhere objects to telling too much truth: by which it may be fairly inferred, that, in some cases, to lie is not only excusable but commendable. And
Henry Fielding
#19. The story unfolded quickly as I typed, in a way I was becoming familiar with. There was something about putting the truth on paper, bringing facts into the light of day where everyone could look at them, that made my fingers move faster -- it was becoming one of my favorite sensations on earth.
Gwenda Bond
#20. On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.
H.L. Mencken
#22. Perhaps one day the man in the black jacket will think about this too: why he only wondered if it was Kevin or Amat who was telling the truth. Why Maya's word wasn't enough.
Fredrik Backman
#24. The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.
Edward St. Aubyn
#25. People want biography. People want memoir. They want you to tell them that the story you're telling them is true. The thing I'm telling you is true, but it did not always happen to me.
Dorothy Allison
#26. Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn
Abbi Glines
#27. Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka
#29. -I suck cock because I like cock. I like getting my cock sucked and I really--yes, really--like sucking the cocks of other men! And you know what I like the best of all? I like sticking my cock up some other man's ass!
Tali Spencer
#30. Fear is a place where you just tell the truth
Clive Barker
#31. Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth.
Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
#33. Loving someone is helping them when they get in trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth ...
Mark Haddon
#34. A story is not a thing. A story is an act. It only exists in the brief moment of its telling. The question you must ask is what a story has the power to do. The truth of something you do is very different from the truth of something you know.
Matthew J. Kirby
#35. I was always a liar. But one thing I failed to realize about being a liar is that you know when you are deceiving someone else, but when you deceive yourself you believe you are telling the truth.
Jack Gantos
#36. There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#37. You can't stay well without telling
and living
the truth.
Martha Beck
#38. Truth will keep on telling the truth
Lies will lie to be more uncouth
No more rainbow after the storm
Nowhere to escape leaving the norm
Munia Khan
#39. On the way there hoop had talked to him about pain, telling him that it was a fleeting thing, a physical reaction to damage that he knew would do him no harm, and that afterward he wouldn't actually be able to remember what the pain. Had felt like.
Tim Lebbon
#40. When life tries to define you with its hardship, you gotta push back, look it straight in the eye and say, 'No matter what life throws at me, I'm going to keep telling myself that I will overcome.' And every time you own that truth, you write your own life script.
Nikki Rosen
#41. If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats.
Chauncey Depew
#42. Telling the truth without sensitivity can be a form of abuse.
Frank Hall
#43. But a funny thing happens when you tell a man that you don't want to get married: they don't believe you. They think you're lying to yourself or to them or you're trying to trick them in some way and you end up being made to feel worse for just telling the truth.
Jami Attenberg
#44. Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love. When we see ourselves as we truly are and accept ourselves, we build the necessary foundation for self-love.
Bell Hooks
#45. In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - Orwell
Amie Kaufman
#46. Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It's mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It's about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.
John Piper
#47. Atticus sometimes said that one way to tell whether a witness was lying or telling the truth was to listen rather than watch.
Harper Lee
#48. Do you thinking not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?
Robert Redford from the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor
James Grady
#49. Men understand direct communication. It's bitches who speak in code.
Kristen Ashley
#50. And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
William Faulkner
#51. Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
Joan Of Arc
#52. Only very odd people don't realize that truth-telling is always a relative value.
John Gardner
#53. Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?
George Orwell
#54. When you find that people are not telling you the truth
look out!
Agatha Christie
#55. The startling truth is this: as this narrative unfolded, amidst all the voices breaking free, telling their stories for the first time, the loudest voice of all was that of Norman Rockwell.
Jane Allen Petrick
#56. When people lie to me they're telling me I'm not worth the truth.
Lauren Dane
#57. As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.
Howard Dean
#58. I am not writing to flatter paternal egotism, to echo cant, or prop up humbug; I am merely telling the truth.
Charlotte Bronte
#59. During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
#60. If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.
Chogyam Trungpa
#62. My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.
Laura Riding
#63. Follow our hearts. Live our dreams. Tell the truth.
Zoe McLellan
#64. That was the trouble with not being right in the head. You couldn't always tell if your eyes were telling the truth.
Christina Henry
#65. Okay, you're telling the truth. By the way, Nick, you have the most screwed-up life. You're either boring as all get out, or you're about to die. There's no middle ground with you. You might want to work on that.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#66. I use a lot of humor, and I follow the saying that if you want to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh first, otherwise, they will shoot you. So I can tell you a joke and maybe you will laugh at the beginning. But it's not about telling jokes.
Sayed Kashua
#68. I don't think telling the truth ever gets anyone in trouble in the long run. Maybe the day after, but not in the long run.
Steve Spurrier
#69. I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?
David Tang
#70. Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.
Paulo Coelho
#71. If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
Thomas Hardy
#72. I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn't about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth.
Paula Jones
#73. The advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing.
Susan Howatch
#74. Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.
H.L. Mencken
#75. The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night.
Woodrow Wilson
#76. You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.
Gore Vidal
#77. A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.
Neville Cardus
#78. It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
Lauryn Hill
#79. But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is ... to tell the truth.
Howard Zinn
#80. Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.
B.B. King
#81. This is the problem,' she says.
'With us?'
'With everything. No one's saying what they want.
Cath Crowley
#82. If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.
Tony Kushner
#83. To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world.
Bruce Lee
#84. (Adlai Stevenson once said to Richard Nixon: If you stop telling lies about me I'll stop telling the truth about you.
Christopher Hitchens
#85. There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#86. Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at "easy." Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it.
Donna Lynn Hope
#87. Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#89. If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what.
Margot Livesey
#90. Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.
Gerald May
#91. The truth is worth pursuing at any distance.
Kenneth Eade
#92. A state may well not survive its writers telling its people the truth.
Korney Chukovsky
#93. I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.
Bob Graham
#94. Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
Ian McKellen
#95. Our biggest fear is not in expressing the truth but that we will be attacked or belittled because of our truth.
Kelli Wilson
#96. I like a quote given on a review from Robert Leonard- KCR Illustrated.
Never forget the adage, "You know you are telling the truth and are on to something special if it drives the far-left crazy and the extreme-right insane.
William Dunaway
#97. I try to take everyone's head off, to tell the truth.
A. J. Hawk
#98. There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.
Curt Flood
#99. Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
E.W. Howe
#100. For only while telling the truth does the truth lighten us. When we stop, it turns massive. I left some of my bags on that corner of Green Street somewhere below the equator. Now I carry less and try to dance on my crutches. For only while loving do the pains of feeling lighten.
Mark Nepo
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