Quotes About Truth Tellers

#1. We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.

Robert Kiyosaki

#2. So long as we exalt artists as beautiful liars or as the world's most profound truth-tellers, we remain locked in a moralistic paradigm that doesn't even begin to engage art's most exciting provinces (139).

Maggie Nelson

#3. Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#4. There is a saving grace in truth which helps truth-tellers through the worst of their troubles, and Katy found this out now.

Susan Coolidge

#5. I have found that liars in the end communicate more truth than do truth tellers." "How's that?" "Because truth is the safest lie.

Douglas Preston

#6. We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

Viola Davis

#7. I'm a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers
are despised.

Tess Gerritsen

#8. To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.

Kate Forsyth

#9. No matter how difficult the challenge, when we spread our wings of faith and allow the winds of God's spirit to lift us, no obstacle is too great to overcome.

Roy Lessin

#10. Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.

Simon Bolivar

#11. The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The Self is present as Pure Presence, not as everlasting duration, a rather horrible notion.

Ken Wilber

#12. There were as many truths - overlapping, stewed together - as there were tellers. The truth mattered less than the story's life. A story forgotten died. A story remembered not only lived, but grew.

Patrick Ness

#13. I thought how little interest the men before me had in the results of the war, and how little knowledge they had of "what it was all about.

Ulysses S. Grant

#14. Look, have whatever in your collection at home, but everybody needs a little Friday night. And really, that is Chic.

Bernard Edwards

#15. There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form.

David W. Orr