Top 1200 Truth Be Told Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in.

My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you.

One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

As my parents are from India, I am told a lot of positive things about the country, the culture and traditions of Muslims in India. I don't remember anything nasty told to me by my parents.

If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition!

Who can tell truth from falsehood any more? I say it, and you feel it in your hearts: no man or woman on this big small earth. How should our sages miss the mark of life, and our most skillful players lose the game? your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me: because all know, and no one understands.

People will know if you are telling the truth or lying. If you are doing commentary, why not tell the truth?

I'm loud and hard and in your face, and I tell the truth, and I think a lot of people fear the truth.

The truth will set you free...unless you want to know the truth about who killed JFK.

Anybody who's into Arthurian legends will appreciate that they are being re-told. The Arthurian legends have been developed and re-told over the years.

Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.

The thing about stereotypes as we all know, there is often truth in them, but it's almost always a partial truth.

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.

When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth.

I think whatever comes natural is probably the truth, and the truth is the strongest form of anything - whether serious or funny.

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

I'm a person who has always believed that you tell people the truth, and they'll make reasonable decisions. Truth is powerful.

The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be supressed.

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.

When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.

His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.

You want to put out good vibes for the viewers, even if so many stories that have to be told and that need to be told have a lot of darkness in them, because the world has a lot of darkness in it.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

I'm the type of human who is interested most in the truth. God gave me a healthy love for the truth.

I think a lot of people are afraid the truth is in conflict with God. And are unable to let go and let the truth of the world.

All I want is the truth, just give me some truth

The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.

I'm not a politician; I'm an artist. So I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth.

Even as Jews and Christians profoundly disagree about the truth, they are united in the belief that there is a truth to be sought.

If you live your life in truth, the truth will out.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.

Know that Truth sees through bullshit. So if you can't handle looking at Truth, you must be a Devil's culprit.

Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.

I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

Truth is not what I say it is, and not what you think it is. Truth is what God's word says it is.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, 'Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?'

I bet you never heard of a playa with no game, Told the truth to get what I want, but shot it with no shame. Take this music dead serious while others entertain. I see they makin' they paper so I guess I can't complain...or can I? I feel they disrespectin' the whole thang. Them hooks like sellin' dope to black folks, And I choke when the food they serve ain't tastin' right, My stomach can't digest it even when I bless it.

I told Pat I want to be him for Halloween. I almost got hit and I told Pat I should stop teasing him.

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.

Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

Young people may be stupid at times, but they respond to the truth when it is present, and for them, KRS-One is the truth!

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

I have been told too much - to talk less, to keep my opinions to myself, to not sound intelligent - all this was told to me so that I could fit in. But I never thought I fit in anyway. So if you don't fit in, at least stand out.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

Look, sometimes the truth could hurt you so I blow my cig smoke right at the truth commercial.

A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.