Top 1200 Telling The Truth Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Telling the truth after proper investigation is the height of courage.

A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.

Telling the truth without sensitivity can be a form of abuse.

I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't give people that, they feel like you are being fake and you're not telling the truth. So it's like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, it's too much for you.

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

Stop telling the truth about my record!

My parents taught me the importance of telling the truth no matter what.

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

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

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

I think Assange has been very courageous. I've also defended Bradley Manning. I think they've been tremendously courageous in telling the truth, and the public has the right to the truth.

You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art.

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

If a story is telling a truth, then why shouldn't it affect everybody?

Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth.

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

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

You can only really get to any truth by telling peoples' stories.

There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.

I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Truth is truth, not the explanations of Truth. Truth is a living, moving process. Truth is constantly undulating and vibrating. You can become one with the Truth, but you cannot adequately explain it.

Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.

Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.

Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.

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

You can't stay well without telling--and living--the truth.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

I only believe in telling the truth and being truthful.

I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again

Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

I will never apologize to the Jewish community for telling the truth

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

Those of us who believe in human rights and the truth - particularly the journalists and the media - should stand in defense of Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. We owe them a lot for telling us the truth of what is happening in our world, and that is why I would continue to support them.

Truth is better than fiction in terms of telling the story.

Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.

Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth.

I think the biggest lesson I learned from my Dad was the importance of telling the truth.

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

The French are simply incapable of telling the truth.

I learned as a really young kid, when my dad was telling me one story and my mom was telling me another that, even as a 5-year-old boy, there was no way that both of these stories are true. Something in the middle is true, and I have to figure out what it is, what the truth is, and I never did quite figure that out.

Therefore, faithful Christian, seek the truth, listen to the truth, learn the truth, love the truth, tell the truth, learn the truth, defend the truth even to death.

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.

NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.

Faith is acting like God is telling the truth.

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.

I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.

As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth.

Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that's just the map of the journey.

Good writing is about telling the truth.

telling the truth about children's lives is radical.

The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth.

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

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.