Speaking The Truth Is Quotes

#1. Speaking the truth is for losers and egomaniacs.

Dennis Perrin

#2. The greatest thing about speaking the truth is that you never have to remember what you said." -Judge Judy

Benjamin D. Cox

#3. The greatest advantage of speaking the truth is you don't have to remember what you said.

Anonymous

#4. Speaking the truth is the main attribute of a pure hearted person.

Eraldo Banovac

#5. Being anti-rhetoric is, finally, just another rhetorical strategy. Rhetoric is what the other guy is doing - whereas you, you're just speaking the plain truth as you see it.

Sam Leith

#6. Speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into Him who is the head - Christ. Ephesians 4:15

Beth Moore

#7. Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.

Storm Jameson

#8. Despite what I said about staying the way we were, I changed. I, who have always believed in speaking my mind and made it my mission to uncover the truth, have found myself keeping secrets. Sometimes life is more complicated than the simple rules we make for it.

Elizabeth Chandler

#9. Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.
Giggles can spread from person to person.
So can blushing.
But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.

Vera Nazarian

#10. The man who holds the space is willing to risk relationships for the truth, because he knows without truth there is no true relationship. He knows that speaking the unspeakable sets everyone free, including himself. Are

Owen Marcus

#11. In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

John Grisham

#12. In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak?

Carl Sagan

#13. In most cases, the truth is a blade that does not need to be sharpened, and we almost never need to twist the knife. Because as a listener we can empathize with the fear that what we hear might hurt, we can also work to apply gentleness when speaking. I

Ethan Nichtern

#14. She's a manner of speaking.
Even the flowers don't come back, or the green leaves.
There are new flowers, new green leaves.
There are other beautiful days.
Nothing comes back, nothing repeats itself, because everything is real.

Alberto Caeiro

#15. When the mind opens by speaking denials, this true Self that philosophers have so long striven to free shows itself all glorious with wisdom, strength, and holiness ... Denial of evil is a word of Truth.

Myrtle Fillmore

#16. That is one of the many reasons why I avoid speaking as much as possible. For I always say either too much or too little, which is a terrible thing for a man with a passion for truth like mine.

Samuel Beckett

#17. The real Muslim is the one who prefers speaking the truth even when it is ruinous to him over lying even when it benefits him, and who finds inner peace in doing so.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#18. The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.

John Piper

#19. Do not oppose because in opposing the tenderness of the feeling level is crushed. That is why we say Speak the Truth but see that you are speaking delicately. Do not speak non-truth and do not speak in a non sweet way, so that the feeling is nourished.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#20. Cool. I'm Kathryn, but everyone calls me Kat. And do not make any cat jokes or I'll have to hurt you. With my claws." she waved the long, blunt tips of her fingers at me. "Truth be told, I stopped speaking meow a long time ago." speaking meow? "I'm guessing calling you pretty kitty is out.

Gena Showalter

#21. We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.

Origen

#22. The upshot here is that Gil Scott-Heron is still a warrior, even if the front lines have moved. He's made a record not without hope but which doesn't come with any easy or comforting answers. In that way, the man is clearly still committed to speaking the truth.

Will Hermes

#23. And much addicted to speaking the truth. In her younger years she was a good deal of a romp, and, though it is an awkward confession to make about one's heroine, I must add that she was something of a glutton.

Henry James

#24. Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions. Philosophy is about the caustic or cauterizing effect of the truth, not the currying of sensibilities.

Kenny Smith

#25. Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Philip James Bailey

#26. When truthsayers have the courage to say the emperor is wearing no clothes, whether you agree with their point of view or not, send them love. They are to be acknowledged for speaking their truth.

Barbara Marciniak

#27. The truth is that in this country you here you're more likely to be harassed, hurt, or killed if you're a minister speaking about progress for Black people than if you are a sure enough revolutionary.

Gil Scott-Heron

#28. They said, "You are a savage and dangerous woman."
I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.

Nawal El Saadawi

#29. Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#30. In speaking the truth of your experience to another, it will serve you well to realize that how they choose to respond is not your responsibility.

Iyanla Vanzant

#31. What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.

Sacha Guitry

#32. The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.

Ann Goldstein

#33. What the commands of mathematicians, God, and playwrights have in common seems to be this, that the mere act of speaking suffices to bring about the truth of what is said.

Alfred Mollin

#34. Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.

Brene Brown

#35. I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even know is there.

Malik Yusef

#36. 15Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Anonymous

#37. Genuine bravery for a writer ... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be expressed. It is about speaking out with a different voice, risking the wrath of the state and offending everyone, for the sake of the truth, and the writer's conscience.

Murong Xuecun

#38. Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

Timothy Keller

#39. To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor.

Judith Malina

#40. It only takes one voice, at the right pitch, to start an avalanche.

Dianna Hardy

#41. Vaclav Havel had moral stature. The president in first Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in many ways is a ceremonial role. And so, speaking out and having that strong moral fiber, people just knew that he told the truth to people who had only heard lies. And so I think his - that's his legacy.

Judy Woodruff

#42. If you have led an honorable and honest life, there is no need to be afraid of speaking the truth. The

Haemin Sunim

#43. Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.

Pope John XXIII

#44. Truth is a slippery concept. It changes shape according to who's speaking it and it never looks the same to any two people.

Deb Baker

#45. Strictly speaking, nothing that's said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can't ever say it.)

Susan Sontag

#46. The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power.

Leymah Gbowee

#47. It is the glory and good of Art
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth - to mouths like mine, at least.

Robert Browning

#48. Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them ... the saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to
love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.

Blaise Pascal

#49. It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith.

Anthony Trollope

#50. There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

Cornel West

#51. The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

Susan Sontag

#52. The problem isn't that they all speak bad about me. The problem is that they all feel comfortable speaking bad about me to you.

Monika Ramzy

#53. Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

Tacitus

#54. But then, I said, speaking the truth and paying your debts is not a correct definition of justice. Quite correct, Socrates, if Simonides is to be believed, said Polemarchus interposing. I

Plato

#55. There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#56. Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.

Richard Carlson

#57. Saying of the Prophet
Truth
Speaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.

Idries Shah

#58. Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!

Sidney Sheldon

#59. My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a
proof that I am speaking the truth.

Socrates

#60. Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

William Kingdon Clifford

#61. Let the inner ear listen to the voice of truth that is always speaking.

Ernest Holmes

#62. Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#63. The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.

Tara Brach

#64. What do you want me to do, Peter?"
"Chuck the ball back to me if it runs out of the circle. Not obviously. Just exercise your devastating talent for keeping to the point and speaking the truth."
"That sounds easy."
"It is
for you. That's what I love you for."
Gaudy Night

Dorothy L. Sayers

#65. Finally, finally, this is what bravery looks like. This is what courage looks like. It has nothing to do with dominating the day, every single day. It has to do with showing up and speaking truth. One true sentence after one true sentence.

Hannah Brencher

#66. When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.

Criss Jami

#67. Arguing from consequences is speaking for or against the truth of a statement by appealing to the consequences it would have if true (or if false).

Ali Almossawi

#68. For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Thomas Carlyle

#69. There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.

Plato

#70. There is no other way of guarding against adulation, than to make people understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth. On the other hand, when everyone feels at liberty to tell you the truth, they will be apt to be lacking in respect to you.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#71. Speaking frankly and speaking the truth are two different things entirely. Honesty is to truth as prow is to stern. Honesty appears first and truth appears last.

Haruki Murakami

#72. One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, 'Speak truth to power'. Power knows the truth. It's speaking the truth to yourself that's the challenge.

Barry Sanders

#73. If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.

Andrew Young

#74. There is something more than violence that Nasheenians taught me, and that is the awful brutality of speaking absolute truth. I propose that we begin to unmask ourselves. We speak the truth of ourselves. We tell them just how many of us there are.

Kameron Hurley

#75. Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

Oscar Wilde

#76. The price for standing up for Truth, no matter how severe, will always be less than the price our souls will be penalized for not speaking up for our conscience. There is no greater crime in the universe than silencing your conscience.

Suzy Kassem

#77. Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

Thomas Carlyle

#78. You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going to look them in the eye and tell them the truth, even some truths that they don't like. And - but they have to believe the person's speaking from their heart and are authentic.

Chris Christie

#79. There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.

Dale Carnegie

#80. My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.

Shane Claiborne

#81. When you start (telling it like it is) speaking the truth, those who opposed it are part of the on-going problems that exist in any society. But it's always good to acknowledge the rebuttal of an opposition. Because the better rebuttal will often win the debate.

Henry Johnson Jr

#82. Jack: "Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?"
Gwendolen: "I can. For I feel that you are sure to change.

Oscar Wilde

#83. Is it true, what Jesus believed, this Truth that he died for and lived for? Maybe the only way to know finally this side of falling off that precipice ourselves is to stop speaking and thinking and reading about it so much and to start watching and listening.

Frederick Buechner