Top 100 Quotes About You Tell The Truth
#1. The dictators of the world say that if you tell a lie often enough, why, people will believe it. Well, if you tell the truth often enough, they'll believe it and go along with you.
Harry Truman
#2. In the West, you don't get in any trouble if you tell the truth, but you still can't do it. Not only can't you tell the truth, you can't think the truth. It's just so deeply embedded, deeply instilled, that without any meaningful coercion it comes out the same way it does in a totalitarian state.
Noam Chomsky
#3. Anything at all . . . . as long as you tell the truth.
Stephen King
#4. You're a quiet one. You keep to yourself, but when you speak up, you tell the truth: in your music and every other way.
Cinda Williams Chima
#5. As somebody back then wrote, "Facebook is where you lie to your friends, Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers.
Jon Ronson
#6. People ask me all the time why I write. I do realize that one day I will have to answer this question, most likely in front of a large crowd. But how do you tell the truth when you struggle just to write it? How do you admit that the words are just salve to the things you are too afraid to say?
Kacey Vanderkarr
#7. I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#8. I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.
Jussie Smollett
#9. Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
William Howard Taft
#10. Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.
Ben Carson
#11. I thought I was a fool for no one;
But ooh baby I'm a fool for you;
You're the queen of the superficial;
how long before you tell the truth?
Matthew Bellamy
#12. If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
Rachel Johnson
#13. Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
Larry Merchant
#15. I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.
Terry Pratchett
#16. Sometimes you tell the truth like you're pulling taffy.
Lisa Loeb
#17. One woman was sure that her father would appear on her front steps and try to kill her. In actuality, he hid from her after that, avoiding her totally. He was scared of her. You may not realize it, but you hold a lot of power when you tell the truth.
Ellen Bass
#18. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
#19. Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.
G.K. Chesterton
#20. You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
W. Somerset Maugham
#21. If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory
Judy Sheindlin
#22. If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles George Gordon
#23. 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
#24. If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
Mark Twain
#25. If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.
Jesse Ventura
#26. If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
Larry David
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity.
Pat Cooper
#31. It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the sacrifice of those who accepted the terms of battle? War is a sacrificial system that creates its own justification.
Stanley Hauerwas
#32. It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.
Eve Ensler
#33. The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you'll be okay in the end.
Don Lemon
#34. When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.
Rick Pitino
#35. If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. If you lie, it becomes a part of your future.
John Spence
#36. You never have to look over your shoulder when you tell the truth. You never have to remember the details, because they are what they are. And you don't have to make sure your story matches everyone else's.
Charlie Sheen
#37. The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth, in a country that says you're entitled to tell the truth, you get your face slapped and you get put out of work.
Eartha Kitt
#38. Make sure of two things: Be careful
microphones are always hot, and understand that in Washington, DC, a gaffe is when you tell the truth. So, be careful.
Joe Biden
#39. A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It's not easy once you're out of the habit.
Dashiell Hammett
#40. She'll tell you this house is haunted, but I believe the truth of the matter is that people get haunted. Not places.' - Will Laughlin
Brandy Heineman
#41. I whispered across the bars to Jackaby as I rose, "Shall I tell them the truth?"
"Have you killed anyone?" he asked, quietly.
"No, of course not!"
"Then I can't imagine why you shouldn't.
William Ritter
#42. You must always, always tell the truth. If you are mad, say so. If someone asks you anything, try to find the exact words to describe what you have to say. If you try to tell the exact truth, always, you will ground yourself, become yourself. The truth connects you. It hooks you back up.
George Hodgman
#43. I'll tell you what my mother always said. 'When it comes to marriage, if both don't win, nobody wins.' The longer I lived with your dad, the more I saw the truth in that. In the end, nobody won." "Well,
Terrie Todd
#44. I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.
Wen Ho Lee
#45. As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.
Harper Lee
#46. I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say ... " They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision ... " They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold ... " But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.
Sheri S. Tepper
#47. To tell you the truth, I don't like talking too much once I leave this booth. I'm talked out.
Lynn Samuels
#48. They'll call you a liar, if the truth you tell is yours.
Marty Rubin
#49. An undeniable truth is that while Obama and Pelosi and George Soros and whoever else tell you and me to get off oil, they won't - they're the elites. They're smarter, they're running the world, and they have to be able to get to where they have to go.
Rush Limbaugh
#50. You want people who are both great fans and supporters and believers of your work and people who are also ruthlessly honest. People who will tell you the truth about it. Over the years I've picked up some friends and I know who to show what to and they'll give me the proper read.
Rob Bell
#51. Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.
Jeff Buckley
#52. If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
Pietro Aretino
#53. My beliefs are that the truth is a truth until you organize it, and then it becomes a lie. I don't think that Jesus was teaching Christianity, Jesus was teaching kindness, love, concern, and peace. What I tell people is don't be Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be Buddhist, be Buddha-like.
Wayne Dyer
#54. Little lies that make people feel better are not bad, like thanking someone for a meal they made even if you hated it, or telling a sick person they look better when they don't, or someone with a hideous new hat that it's lovely. But to yourself you must tell the truth
Louise Fitzhugh
#55. Tell the truth, why aren't you going to kill me?"
...
"Because she is.
Elizabeth Hunter
#56. Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.
Ronald Knox
#57. We look at the people who tell the truth, who say real things in public, like they're confused. Crazy. As if everything should be said safely or not at all and what you feel shouldn't be taken seriously. Which is why it's not polite to say "I'm going to kiss you now because I can't do anything else.
Pleasefindthis
#58. To tell you the Truth: It's better to give rather than to receive.
Amado Nervo
#59. Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can be saying to ye while ye wake, but the same poor words, again and again. While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them. Go
Diana Gabaldon
#60. Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.
Alan Moore
#61. Tell me the truth, Italian. You don't like it because it's strong. You like it because it's illegal.
Beppe Severgnini
#62. Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most.
Eve Ensler
#65. Truth is in the eye of the beholder, Doctor, I never tell the truth because I don't believe there is such a thing ... " "You're not going to tell me." "But you don't need me to tell you, Doctor,., if you'll just notice the details. They're scattered like crumbs ...
Andrew J. Robinson
#66. There is no man on this earth that has the right to tell you how beautiful you are, for no words we use has enough power to tell that truth. Your beauty can only be describe by the heavens above in a language none of us know.
Vincent Edwards
#68. How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have to be killed before you summon the courage to tell the truth to the American people?
Don Winslow
#69. The truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.
Jack McDevitt
#70. Yes, I know most of you can tell the difference between the truth and a lie, but a lie repeated often enough is easily mistaken for the truth. A falsehood left unrefuted in time becomes a fact. I tell you, the tongue is mightier than the sharpest talon.
Jim Tan
#71. But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
Whatever the Party holds
to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except
by looking through the eyes of the Party.
George Orwell
#72. HOw did you tell someone the truth when you weren't even sure what that was?
Stacia Kane
#73. There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself, an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Antisthenes Pinto
#74. It's easy to tell someone something you know they want to hear. What's not so easy is following up on those easy words and making what you said come to life. It's in taking the words and turning them into actions where most people give up and bail out.
Melyssa Winchester
#75. Ask your mother to tell you how much she loves you. Listen carefully to the truth in her voice.
Key Ballah
#76. ...so I looked at this kid from West Texas, feelin' all cut up an' betrayed 'cause he suddenly realized the Land of the Free been fuckin' him in the ass all his life--an' I told myself, 'Shit, so that's what it's like to be the white boy. Any nigga you ask can tell you that's how America works.
Garth Ennis
#77. You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.
Bryan Cranston
#78. It gets embarrassing to say something untrue because you put it online and everyone knows about it, so it's better to tell the truth.
Prince
#79. Because people who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation. It's a way for people to be honest without telling the truth.
Chuck Klosterman
#80. You can't build a future if you do not know who you are. You can't become who you are meant to be if you can't tell the truth about who you are, what you have, and everything about your life. The truth is the absolute essence to your success, while lies are the absolute essence to your failures.
Suze Orman
#81. I thought it was excellent, to tell you the truth.
Rush Limbaugh
#82. *Oh, I know I could say were through And tell myself I'm over you But even if I made a vow I promise not to miss you now And try to hide the truth inside I fell cause I, I just can't live a lie *
Carrie Underwood
#83. If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.
Lucinda Roy
#84. So I always think it's important to allow someone to reveal themself. If you notice something about someone that you like, it could really tell you something about who they are during a time of trial. The truth will come out.
Leven Rambin
#85. Listen to me. I will tell you the truth about a man's life. I will tell you the truth about his love for women.
Mario Puzo
#86. People don't always tell you the truth about how they feel. And the truth is, it may not be the same as how you feel.
Kate Le Vann
#87. You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
Patrick Ness
#88. Live your own truth and it won't matter how many lies they tell about you. The truth will prove itself.
Tony Gaskins
#89. You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.
James Earl Jones
#90. Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#91. When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.
Ali Vincent
#92. Tell the truth, traveller, or you create issues hard to overcome later.
Elaina J. Davidson
#93. True, sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between authentic anger and bullshit and that's why the following exercise is designed to help you express your resentments with integrity, and not with demoralizing bullshit
Will Jelbert
#94. To succeed in business, you need somebody in your corner who cares enough to challenge you and is courageous enough to tell you the truth, especially when the pressure is on.
George Foreman
#95. But if you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself. Luke Garroway
Cassandra Clare
#96. Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
Sam Rayburn
#97. Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth." "yeah, but not to hurt, to help.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#98. Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.
NeNe Leakes
#99. I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.
Robert Barry
#100. [T]hat they may believe you, you must say it as obscurely as possible, just like that, simply in hints. You must only give them a peep of the truth, just enough to tantalize them. They'll tell a story better than ours, and of course they'll believe themselves more than they would us ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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