“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolucionary act.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
... when caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that? — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about. — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth. — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
When I look at material, I get excited by things that are telling the truth because that's what you want to do:… — Teyonah Parris Copy Share Image
We are coming out to tell the truths about gays, for I am tired of the conspiracy of silence, so I'm going… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I… — Joanna Southcott Copy Share Image
To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats… — Roman Abramovich Copy Share Image
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Testing and documentation have a crucial relationship—your tests prove that your documentation is telling the truth.” — Kevin Harvey Copy Share Image
if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
The saying is, life is short, but what if it's not? But if life is short, is this how you would like… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many… — Pink Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
When something like this [2003 invasion of Iraq] takes place, the international law professionals have a complicated task. There is a fringe… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Start telling the truth now and never stop. Begin by telling the truth to yourself about yourself. Then tell the truth to… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“For there comes a time in the day’s occupations when old Money Writer falls so in love with an idea that he… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“You would never do anything like that, would you?" my wife asked him. "You would never hurt animals." Our son shook his… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“My friend, I've been lying all my life. Even when I was telling the truth. I never spoke for the truth, but… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Why should we cherish “objectivity”, as if ideas were innocent, as if they don’t serve one interest or another? Surely, we want… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“It would be pointless to deny that some crime in Australia is linked to migrant communities. A factor here is that many… — Phillip Knightley Copy Share Image
“I’m in my classroom and I’m looking at this girl, but all I can see is my dad on the ground, in… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
10 Most Important Things For A Healthy Relationship 1. LOVE: The Special Feeling That Makes You Feel, All Warm And Wonderful. 2.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Truth, as he always said, was overrated, nobody ever won prizes for telling the truth.” — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth. — Ken Blanchard Copy Share Image
“Real fear begins when you realize the monster… was telling the truth.” — Owen Arlin Copy Share Image