Truth Quotes

I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day.

~ Toni Maguire

Ruby knew then that a lie could only control a person if they believed it.

~ Cynthia Bond

I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little.He meant a liar.

~ Jasper Fforde

Sometime a #lie is more #honest than the #truth . At least that lie will guide you to the #path you really believe TO walk It tells , who U R

~ Tushar Upreti

A story is just a convoluted lie...with some hidden truths.

~ Christian Clason

The truth you speak doth lack some gentlenessAnd time to speak it in. You rub the soreWhen you should bring the plaster.

~ William Shakespeare

When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger.

~ T.f. Hodge

We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Brandon was like a God in Healy, and I guess I was like God's best friend.

~ Jennifer Mathieu

What are you suggesting I do Ralph?’‘I’m suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads is trouble.’“Sometimes that’s the only place telling the truth get you, too.

~ M.l. Stedman

When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence.

~ E.b. Hudspeth

I better understood the little lies that liquor told, lifting spirits and drowning sorrows while withholding the whole truth--that, in the end, it is the spirit in peril of drowning. Sorrows have gills.

~ Charles M. Blow

A lie is the most sacred private property on Earth. Governments claim it is not theirs, and that their critics are the rightful owners.

~ Gustavo Gus Larsen

Truthful hearts have clear blue skies permanently hidden and bound to thrive from the accusing mists of doubts and lies. ~ Angelica Hopes~ an excerpt from If I Could Tell You

~ Angelica Hopes

Mists may blur vision, Doubts to lies are heavy mists, Truth clears for all ways. ~ Angelica Hopes, Haikuan excerpt from If I Could Tell You

~ Angelica Hopes

Never tell an unnecessary lie; the truth has great authority. The cleverest murders have been caught, not because they told the one essential lie, but because they continued to lie about unimportant detail when the truth could have done them no harm.

~ P.d. James

In a world that loves lies, truth is subject to the greatest libels.

~ Orrin Woodward

So always avoid banality. That is, avoid illustrating the author's words and remarks. If you want to create a true masterpiece you must always avoid beautiful lies: the truths on the calender under each date you find a proverb or saying such as: He who is good to others will be happy. But this is not true. It is a lie. The spectator, perhaps, is content. The spectator likes easy truths. But we are not there to please or pander to the spectator. We are here to tell the truth.

~ Jerzy Grotowski

One thing I think, about humans is that we'd rather live in a comfortable lie then in an unpleasant truth.

~ Adam Snowflake

If I say I'll help you I'll help you. If I say I'll kill you I'll kill you. Everything else is ripples of maybe.

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.

~ George Horace Lorimer

The best lie was always just short of the truth.

~ Roderick Vincent

Unveiling the lies that we live by can ultimately help reveal the truth.

~ Miranda J. Barrett

Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Lies don't fit snugly into disguises. Eventually the cloak falls off and you're left staring at the naked truth which is always an uncomfortable situation.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It feels nice to emerge from the lies.

~ Markus Zusak

Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.

~ Orson Scott Card

The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The truth is often a big, scary wall, no less massive and haunting even after you find a way around it.

~ Sean Patrick Brennan

The truth will set us free. But freedom is cold and empty and frightening, and lies can often be warm and beautiful.

~ George R.r. Martin

So much was so easy. Glamour was second nature. It was just making folk see what they wanted to see. Fooling folk was as simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing.But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they were too twisted to see? How could you even begin?

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.

~ Samuel Butler

The people who support and defend those accused of child sexual abuse indiscriminately, those who join organizations dedicated to defending people who are accused of child sexual abuse with no screening whatsoever to keep out those who are guilty as charged are likewise not necessarily people engaged in an objective search for the truth. Some of them can and do use deceit, trickery, misstated research, harassment, intimidation, and charges of laundering federal money to silence their opponents.Those of us who are the recipients of bogus lawsuits and frivolous ethics charges and phony phone calls and pickets outside our offices must know more than the research to survive such tactics. We must know something about endurance and about the importance of refusing to be intimidated.Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Learned Author: Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998

~ Anna C. Salter

REJECT THE LIES AND VIOLENCE. STAND FOR LOVE, TRUTH, DECENCY AND THE COMMON GOOD.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Those who speak the truth in this world; they fall out of favor, in the current era of inflated lies.

~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

A man protects his fish from rats by keeping it under a cat's watch. How wise!Another buys a gun for security reasons, but decides to kill a ghost with it. How smart!One prays to God for safety, as he climbs a palm tree with sewing thread. How intelligent!Man does not want the truth, and God does not want lies, yet there is no third option.One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing. That's pride. Another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth. Humility!Not all that glitters is gold, and not all gold glitters. Watch, with the eyes, and also with the heart.Just because all things are lawful, don't make them expedient. And because a thing is right doesn't mean it edifies.With Faith, Wisdom comes highly recommended!

~ Olaotan Fawehinmi

Don’t be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.

~ Dianna Hardy

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester

~ Anne Perry