Telling Truths Quotes

#1. With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them.

Ray McKinnon

#2. There's place and means for every man alive.

William Shakespeare

#3. I was a firm believer in telling the truth, but some of my truths weren't suitable for such young ears, and I did not want to screw up someone else's kid!

Rachel Vincent

#4. When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

Sally Mann

#5. Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.

Alain De Botton

#6. 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

#7. I don't want to be the 'spice' added to a show. I'm not a condiment!

Esai Morales

#8. Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?

Donna Tartt

#9. People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

Oscar Wilde

#10. Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

Francesca Annis

#11. I don't care what you meant to do. I really don't.
I only care about what you actually do. That's important. The rest of it is just a bunch of bull shit.
--- Grace.

Christian Kiefer

#12. Seen from the point of view of a lie, the truth is often touted as radical.

Mango Wodzak

#13. I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school ... who failed math.

Dat Phan

#14. In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.

Fred Ward

#15. The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth.

Chris Christie

#16. Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.

Raheel Farooq

#17. Truth's nakedness is not concerned with whom it strikes - painfully, or with pleasure; responding appropriately to its ingenuous temperament, however, rewards perceptions of unbiased transparency.

T.F. Hodge

#18. A lie, when believed, became the truth.

Michelle M. Pillow

#19. There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

Alexander McCall Smith

#20. Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don't know they're telling them, the truths people reveal when they think they're lying, then you can start to build a world.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#21. Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

Winston Churchill

#22. 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

#23. She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#24. Stop poking your nose around where it doesn't belong, someone cuts it off. There's something else going on around you, like a storm.

Kendare Blake

#25. If you let it, pain makes more space for love within you. And the love we carry inside makes us strong when nothing else can

Mia Sheridan

#26. The problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#27. If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie.

Amit Kalantri

#28. The truth is . . . Well, the truth is the truth, and thus worth telling, but sometimes truths are so complicated that it's exhausting to get them out in the right order." He glanced up at her. That sounded like an evasion if ever she'd heard one. She raised an eyebrow.

Merrie Haskell

#29. And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

William Shakespeare

#30. The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.

Alan Watts

#31. Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it.

Bernard Williams

#32. We can say what we need to say. We can gently, but assertively, speak our mind. We do not need to be judgmental, tactless, blaming or cruel when we speak our truths

Melody Beattie

#33. If we keep telling ourselves the same things over and over again, eventually, we start to believe the truths they offer, which in turn, will push us into positive and concrete actions. If we are in control of our own minds, we need to feed it with something beautiful and nice.

Kcat Yarza

#34. I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their own truth of what was right loom larger than other truths just as true but somehow less favorable to telling.

Na'ama Yehuda

#35. By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths.

Tim O'Brien

#36. I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.

Thornton Wilder