Best 122 quotes in «telling the truth quotes» category

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

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.

Start telling the truth now and never stop. Begin by telling the truth to yourself about yourself. Then tell the truth to yourself about someone else. Then tell the truth about yourself to another. Then tell the truth about another to that other. Finally, tell the truth to everyone about everything. These are the Five Levels Of Truth Telling. This is the five-fold path to freedom.

Sometimes you tell the truth like you're pulling taffy.

Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.

Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite.

Telling the truth is always revolutionary

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.

The Democratic Party is very afraid of having competition that is actually unmuzzled and that can tell the truth, which is why they keep this fear voting system in place.

The panelists on To Tell The Truth, which is the one that I really knew, they cared about getting it right. They wanted to guess, you know? Although, when I was on as a contestant, the one time I was on as a contestant, apparently they had a rule, which was that when children were on, everybody would get a vote - and Kitty Carlisle voted for me.

The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

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.

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

The person who imagined that he could not be the victim of propaganda because he could distinguish truth from falsehood, is extremely susceptible to propaganda, because when propaganda does tell the truth, he is then convinced that it is no longer propaganda: moreover, his self-confidence makes him all the more vulnerable to attacks of which he is unaware.

The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.

Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.

Therefore, faithful Christian, seek the truth, listen to the truth, learn the truth, love the truth, tell the truth, learn the truth, defend the truth even to death.

The young are not afraid of telling the truth.

The whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

To tell the truth is an act of love. To withhold the truth is an act of hate. Or worse, apathy.

Trump fired Jim Comey because the most dangerous thing in the world, if you are Donald Trump, is a person who tells the truth, is dogged, you can't control, and who is as committed as Comey is to the institutional independence of an organization that has the power to investigate you.

Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful.

We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.

Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?

When you tell the truth, people listen.

When there is breakdown in a relationship, you must have the hard conversation. It may not be pretty and it may not feel good. But if you are willing to listen and tell the truth, it will open up.

When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth?

When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth.

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.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

Defend the truth with all you might so that the people of the future do not learn a lie.

Chet! What are you eating?” Nothing. It was true. The eating part was over.

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand

All of us can lie but it is not a must that we should lie.

Curmudgeons speak up because they have to, because it’s become critically important for them to tell the truth as they see it. Telling the truth is as natural to them once more as it was when they were children. The fact that no one cares to listen is inconsequential. Curmudgeons speak up, raise their voices, stand for something too right to be silent about anymore, whatever the cost, despite a world that deals with what it doesn't want to hear by crucifying the messenger. Increasingly these days, they're being called by another name: whistleblower.

Her voice was flat, in a way Myrna recognized from years of listening to people trying to rein in their emotions. To squash them down, flatten, them, and with them their words and their voices. Desperately trying to make the horrific sound mundane.

If you can't tell me what you want to hear me better hear me what you want to tell me

I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of my mind. I could hear a quieter version of them still, from their dark place, through all the other business that occupied my brain, but I wouldn't unlid those boxes until I was ready to hear [his] stories again as they wanted to be heard.