Top 1200 Telling The Truth Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.

Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their triumph in a manner to grant accolades to themselves and heap blame upon their rivals. Ask yourself if part of the story is being withheld by design or ignorance.

What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

I'm just a guy entertaining people and telling the truth and teaching them science.

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It's hard enough to communicate when you're telling the truth.

I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth.

Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child will upon the slightest temptation tell an untruth as readily as the truth. That is, as soon as he can suspect that it will be to his advantage; and the dread that he afterward has of telling a lie is acquired principally by his being threatened, punished, and terrified by those who detect him in it, till at length, a number of painful impressions are annexed to the telling of an untruth, and he comes even to shudder at the thought of it.

For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.

It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.

If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth.

No one can know truth except the one who obeys truth. You think you know truth. People memorize the Scriptures by the yard, but that is not a guarantee of knowing the truth. Truth is not a text. Truth is in the text, but it takes the text plus the Holy Spirit to bring truth to a human soul.

If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

As far as rapping goes, as long as you are telling the truth and you have a good flow, then you win.

The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.

When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.

Writing has to do with truth-telling. When you're writing, let's say, an essay for a magazine, you try to tell the truth at every moment. You do your best to quote people accurately and get everything right. Writing a novel is a break from that: freedom. When you're writing a novel, you are in charge; you can beef things up.

One of the roles of the press is to make sure that the president, in the voice of the people, is telling the truth.

Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.

Everyone is telling the truth all of the time... well, it's just that times change.

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.

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

When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'

I love that Jesus showed He cared while at the same time telling the truth.

Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.

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

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

I call myself out on my mistakes, but in telling the truth, sometimes it stings a little.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.

I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.

I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .

Standing up for what you believe in and being honest, telling the truth are all very liberating things.

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.

I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

Telling kids the truth isn't always entirely possible, but talking to them is.

I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.

Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.

If I'm not getting played on the radio and I'm not making any money, I have nothing to lose by telling the truth.

Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.

If I'm using Nonviolent Communication I never, never, never hear what somebody thinks about me. Never hear what somebody thinks about you, you'll live longer. You'll enjoy life more. Hear the truth. The truth is that when somebody's telling you what's wrong with you, the truth is they have a need that isn't getting met. Hear that they're in pain. Don't hear the analysis.

The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

Telling the truth about domestic violence - and those who shield it - should not be punished.

Papa set a high premium on telling the truth, and I believed everything he said.

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

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

I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal.

I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.