Best 122 quotes in «telling the truth quotes» category

Above all, tell the truth.

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the truth that she discovers is profoundly political.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.

Faith is acting like God is telling the truth.

Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth.

But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.

Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.

I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.

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?

I don't know General Michael Flynn well, but it's hard for me to believe anybody would allow themselves to be blackmailed by the Russians because they didn't tell the full story or didn't tell the truth to the vice president of the United States who works 50 feet down the hall.

If you hate something, you hate it, and if you like something or somebody, you like it, but tell the truth. And most celebrities have that thin veneer that they will not break for you.

I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is not served when reporters prize trepidation and propriety over the robust journalistic duty to tell the whole story.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

I have been involved with this stuff [newspapers, television] all my life, but I'm involved, so I know when you're telling the truth and when you're not.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

I'm appealing to voters by actually telling the truth.

If you will stop all searching right now and tell the truth to yourself, you will know what is known in the core of your bones. You will know it with no image of it, no concept of it, no thought of it. You will know it as that which has eternally been here. And you will know it as yourself.

I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

I only believe in telling the truth and being truthful.

I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young.

I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Its very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they dont often coincide.

Just because everybody else is engaged in a group hug with Barack Obama doesn't mean that somebody doesn't have to tell the truth.

I will never apologize to the Jewish community for telling the truth

I started to have panic attacks on stage and my wife just asked, "Why don't you just stop?" I was doing Ghost Whisperer at the time so I was making enough money where I could put it away and she said, "Then, when you go back, you just go up and tell the truth." And it's a lot more tiring.

Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself.

On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like.

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

Make sure of two things. Be careful - microphones are always hot, and understand that in Washington, D.C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth. So, be careful.

Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists.

People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people that they are old and you are not allowed to tell people if they smell funny or if a grown-up has made a fart. And you are not allowed to say, 'I don't like you,' unless that person has been horrible to you.