Best 122 quotes in «telling the truth quotes» category

I think the world honestly would be a much healthier place if instead of trying to find rationalizations for our bad behavior we would just say, "I was an asshole. Sure, there were reasons behind it, but that doesn't matter.

Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal.

Not only truth can set you free, but forgiveness as well.

Of course, no government official will ever tell you that the cities may be making the people in them ill.

Like the moon shining bright Up high with all its grace, I can only show you at night And hide half of my face.

Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign.

There is a perfect marriage. Any marriage counselor can tell you that.

Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.

Sometimes Truth cannot be silenced.

Such an impolite person. He is honest with everyone.

Telling the truth has always come naturally to me. And I realize, that people like me are the reason the world hates the truth.

Tell the truth. It's your duty to do so. It's up to them how they take in the information. Keep it real.

The truth is worth pursuing at any distance.

The truth is humble, only those intelligent enough are able to seek and understand it.

We are learning that through striving for justice, tears and laughter, seem more dynamic and shared as each step is taken with communal courage together. Record a legacy, they truly lived, not once stepped back on the path that beckoned. I am proud of my partner, of my family, of our friends. We have learned to value the quiet patience of gentle support both, unspoken and felt, heard and embraced. And if we seem cryptic in message at times, we wish to lift to the world the cause as artists, using the language of our nature and craft, to address the twisted currents of current laws and corruption, where ears are dulled from light by agendas, that the beauty of Art may be expressed in the reclaiming of itself, from the wreckage of the court system mired with soiled attorney and tainted judge. Colors to where there is grey, to lift the hues cast in cast iron graves, stamped Summary Judgement, with no judgement applied. So together we formulate, and forge what is possible, while tear stains cheek, falling upon lighted smile, in thought of our loved ones, that keeps our current path clear.

Time reveals the truth.

To be straight means to be loyal to the truth.

Above all, tell the truth.

When the truth emerges, it can’t be ignored. Nor will it wait.

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.

Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you.

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Faith is acting like God is telling the truth.

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.

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.

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 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 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'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.

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.

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

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.