Telling the truth Quotes · Page 22

“He said, 'are you telling the truth?' I said, 'Yes. I always tell the truth.”

— Mark Haddon

“Such an impolite person. He is honest with everyone.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

— Ramakrishna

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

— Cornel West

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

— June Jordan

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

— Joe Biden

Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself.

— Iyanla Vanzant

To tell the truth, I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker.

— Joseph Hooker

To be positive doesn't mean telling lies to lift people up. To be positive is telling the truth with a bright attitude.

— Terry Mark

Pablo Picasso said, "Art is the lie that tells the truth," and it's not a terribly radical statement. It's always been that…

— Momus

Photojournalism is neither photography or journalism. It has its function but it's not where I see myself: the press is for me…

— Luc Delahaye

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We…

— Walker Percy

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

— Donald Miller

Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the…

— Ingmar Bergman

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

— Russell Means

Life is like a bank account. Random acts of kindness, telling the truth, being loving, showing up for yourself & others, all deposits.

— Anonymous

“Logic!" said the Professor half to himself. "Why don't they teach logic at these schools? There are only three possibilities. Either your…

— C.S. Lewis

Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of…

— Halldór Laxness

“It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than…

— Julian Barnes

Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought…

— Moderata Fonte

“Not yet maybe" "Not ever" "You say that now..." "Give me a chance, Miracle, i'll prove it to you." "Nobody deserves all…

— M. Leighton

Some would ask which country am I from? We are supposed to tell the truth, [so] we tell them India. Some thought…

— Thomas Friedman

I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie…

— Michael Jackson

Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very…

— Trey Gowdy

“Telling the truth is always wrong if it threatens those for whom being wrong can never be true.”

— David Rhodes

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

— Anthony Hope

I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can.

— Andrew Peterson

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.

— Robert Breault

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

— Azar Nafisi

In families like mine, there is no crime worse than telling the truth.

— Tara Westover

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable.

— Craig Ferguson

Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.

— William H. Macy

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

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

— Yann Martel

Andrew Calhoun tells the truth. To my knowledge, there is no better songwriter alive.

— Dave Carter

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

— Gene Kim

Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I learned that telling the truth was a big part of loving yourself.

— Iyanla Vanzant

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Neville Cardus