Speak the truth Quote by Samuel Johnson

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

— Samuel Johnson

All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they…

— Leo Tolstoy

Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of…

— Thomas Carlyle

In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.

— Michael Leunig

The better men know the Lord, the better may the eternal truths we learn be applied in our daily lives.

— Anonymous

A true man will listen to anyone, no matter how young or old the person. For everyone has a story to tell and a…

— Ash Sweeney

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

— Pindar

It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

— Karen Marie Moning

There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that…

— Plato

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

— Voltaire

Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.

— Publilius Syrus