Truth Telling Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Truth Telling
Truth Telling Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Truth Telling quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
She seemed to be trying to take in what Kay had said to her: this bizarre, dangerous advice about telling the truth
— J.K. Rowling
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
— Tayari Jones
Bill Clinton is a liar, a perverted kind of a guy anyway, and he is always stroking black folks rather than telling them the truth.
— Tucker Carlson
When the truth emerges, it can't be ignored. Nor will it wait.
— Barbara Delinsky
I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.
— Cecily McMillan
Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.
— Ann Aguirre
Still, I find lying to be more dangerous than expertly telling the truth, so I avoid it whenever possible.
— Drew Hayes
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
The sooner the jihadis go up to their imagined #heaven, the sooner our earth would be a heaven.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true
— Lady Gaga
If there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicted on you by telling you exactly what happened.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When you find that people are not telling you the truthlook out! — Agatha Christie
Loving someone is helping them when they get in trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth ...
— Mark Haddon
It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.
— Edward Weston
My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.
— Toni Cade Bambara
Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
WHATEVER YOU DO, TELL THE TRUTH.
— Grover Cleveland
A man's story is worth telling only if the truth he discovers is greater than the pain that led him to seek it.
— Alan Cohen
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
— Elbert Hubbard
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
— Galileo Galilei
Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.
— Isabella Stewart Gardner
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.
— Megan McCafferty
While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.
— Sara Shepard
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
— Lawrence Durrell
The truth shouldn't be told only when it's convenient. Honesty must be a way of life.
— Frank Sonnenberg
It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weakness
— Maureen Johnson
Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.
— Muhammad Iqbal
I learned that telling the truth was a big part of loving yourself.
— Iyanla Vanzant
Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.
— Raheel Farooq
Poetry is an art of telling the poet's own truth my bending and twisting it with his or her own emotional bulldozer.
— Debasish Mridha
Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.
— Mark Twain
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
Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.
— Bernard Sahlins
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.
— Elbert Hubbard
A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.
— Michael Kinsley
Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.
— Jonathan Maberry
Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Tell the truth and not the facts.
— Maya Angelou
Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.
— Walter F. Mondale
Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.
— H.L. Mencken
When I see a rosebush smiling at me, I see a sweet little girl telling me, "I love you daddy".
— Debasish Mridha
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
The truth is like sunlight: It causes cancer.
— J. Richard Singleton
Men understand direct communication. It's bitches who speak in code.
— Kristen Ashley
Truth is told when it tells itself.
— Jill Alexander Essbaum
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
— Josefina Vazquez Mota
We have the right to our labor but not to the fruit of our labor.
— Steven Pressfield
When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.
— Sally Mann
Once you reject fear, you will become the perfect candidate to receive and reflect Truth.
— Suzy Kassem
A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.
— Frederick Buechner
To be straight means to be loyal to the truth.
— Auliq Ice
You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Outing is a nasty word for telling the truth.
— Armistead Maupin
This is the problem,' she says. 'With us?'
'With everything. No one's saying what they want. — Cath Crowley
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
— Ramakrishna
Even through such simple acts as telling the truth, being kind, and encouraging others, we bring a smile to God's face.
— Rick Warren
Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
— Catherine Of Siena
It takes much longer to leave the psychic place than the physical place. (p.120)
— Jeanette Winterson
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
— Howard Zinn
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
Be careful, Hally.""Of what? The truth? I seem to be the only one around here who is prepared to face it. — Athol Fugard
The blues aren't pessimistic. We're prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
— Cornel West
To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.
— Val Edward Simone
I consider telling him the truth. That if I were dead like Snow White and he kissed me like that, surely my heart would kick back to life
— Colleen Hoover
The French are simply incapable of telling the truth.
— Jerry Della Femina
Poorly chosen objects are distractions, obstacles we put in the way when we're afraid of telling the truth.
— Lauren Graham
The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.
— Deacon Jones
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
— Malcolm Bradbury
As a journalist I'm asked whether I make things up. As a novelist I'm accused of telling the truth.
— Lennox Morrison
Myths are lies that tell the truth.
— Phil Cousineau
There is a perfect marriage. Any marriage counselor can tell you that.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Fear is a place where you just tell the truth
— Clive Barker
The young are not afraid of telling the truth.
— Anne Frank