Quotes on Telling The Truth

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery.

Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.

Tell the truth and not the facts.

None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

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

I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.

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

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened by a belief in god. No lower opinion of the human race has ever been expressed.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo.

Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.

If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my patients tell me is likely to be true - that many times when I believed that I was right and my patients were wrong, it turned out, though often only after a prolonged search, that my rightness was superficial whereas their rightness was profound.

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?' We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

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

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