Truth Telling Quotes

Be careful, Hally.Of what? The truth? I seem to be the only one around here who is prepared to face it.

~ Athol Fugard

Truth is much like fire. Hard to understand, ever-changing.

~ Will Bly

I write to remind me of the experiences, fictional or non-fictional, that flows a bit of selfless truths. For the me in the ‘I’, or the me through your eyeballs, it is a serum to separate the lumpiness in my heart.

~ James Emlund

A human being who trades away individuality for conformity is nothing but a slave.

~ Auliq Ice

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

~ Paula Fox

I have wondered that even in the era of colour the black and white photographs are so appealing? I feel that as per saying - in black and white -they speak the truth.

~ Amit Abraham

Some people should never be told truth. Their stomachs are not mature enough for that type of food

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Truth is like beauty, it lies in the mind of the beholder

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Truth was not meant to be told but found

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Do not marvel brothers if the world hates you, the world rejected and rebelled against God and His truth.

~ Auliq Ice

All of us can lie but it is not a must that we should lie.

~ Auliq Ice

You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

And came to her a realization that the largest humiliation for the person was a lie. And the viler the one to whom you lie, the greater is the humiliation.

~ Osyp Nazaruk

Seen from the point of view of a lie, the truth is often touted as radical.

~ Mango Wodzak

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

~ Barbara Ehrenreich

I have to tell you the truth. But you are too ugly for it.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

The sooner the jihadis go up to their imagined #heaven, the sooner our earth would be a heaven.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.

~ Raheel Farooq

All people express a fondness for truth and sincerity, yet many people prefer to live with their illusions and delusions. A person’s sincere desire to believe only what is true oftentimes does not trump their ingrained resistance to truths that fail to coincide with their deeply held desires. People reject truth because it undercuts what they wish was true and despise or discredit anyone whom offers a different version of truth than they are prepared to accept.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The story unfolded quickly as I typed, in a way I was becoming familiar with. There was something about putting the truth on paper, bringing facts into the light of day where everyone could look at them, that made my fingers move faster -- it was becoming one of my favorite sensations on earth.

~ Gwenda Bond

I don’t care what you meant to do. I really don’t.I only care about what you actually do. That’s important. The rest of it is just a bunch of bull shit.---,Grace.

~ Christian Kiefer

Do What?' 'Lie,' he said. 'Why do you fabricate these outlandish stories?''Well,' I wanted to say, 'there are those of us who create because all around us, things visible and invisible are crumbling. We are like the stonemasons of Babylon, forever working, as it says in Jeremiah, to shore up the city of walls.'I didn't say that, of course. What I did say was: 'I don't know.

~ Alan Bradley

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

~ Mahatma Gandhi