Truth Telling Quotes

23 quotes by 18 authors

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm. — George Bernard Shaw
Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues of God's people.… — Barbara Brown Taylor
Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens… — Theresa Breslin
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the… — Huston Smith
In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with… — Bell Hooks
My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain uses of the… — Neil Postman
Truth-telling to Congress and the public is not disloyal in America: it is an expression of the higher loyalty officials owe to the Constitution, the… — Daniel Ellsberg
When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. — Bell Hooks
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer… — Wendy Lesser
Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love. — Bell Hooks
In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work… — Julian Barnes
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I… — J. Edgar Hoover
It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if… — Mario Puzo
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. — James E. Faust
Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years… — Cassandra Clare
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… — Neale Donald Walsch
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of… — John Updike
Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I… — Tony Judt
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

Who Wrote These Truth Telling Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 23 Truth Telling Quotes as follows: