Speak The Truth Quotes

• It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Wisdom, Truth

  A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

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  There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

  Cornel West

  Lying, Pay, Living A Lie

  Twitter post from Jun 17, 2011

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• No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

  Plato

  Plato, Hero, Speak

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• It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

  Adrian Rogers

  Hurt, Errors, Comfort

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  It does not require many words to speak the truth.

  Chief Joseph

  Truth, Native American, Reality

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• It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Leadership, Truth, Lying

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.60, Pantheon

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• My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

  Plato

  Hate, People, Hatred

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• It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. There is only one Gospel.

  Adrian Rogers

  Hurt, Lying, Errors

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• Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Speak, Legitimacy

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• The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

  Jack Kornfield

  Compassion, Light, Speak

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• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.112

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• My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.

  Shane Claiborne

  Talking, People, Goal

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.

  Seth

  Deception, Speak, Icarus

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• It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Truth, Liars

  The Idler Feb. 1892, p. 118

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• People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

  David Duchovny

  Hurt, Character, People

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• The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspiring, Way

  Henry David Thoreau, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Journal, ed. by B. Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861”

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• Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

  James E. Faust

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

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• Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.

  Tacitus

  Fear, Truth, Sincerity

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• I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth.

  Chief Joseph

  Tired, Native American, Heart

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• Adorn yourself with truth, try to speak truth in all things; and do not support a lie, no matter who asks you. If you speak the truth and someone gets mad at you, don't be upset, but take comfort in the words of the Lord: Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of truth, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven (Matt. 5:10).

  Gennadius of Constantinople

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Truth, Lying, Honor

  Nomination acceptance speech, Miami, 8 Aug. 1968, in New York Times 9 Aug. 1968, p. 20

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• Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Philosophy, Long

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3)”, p.10, Kshetra Books

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• Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Honesty, Heart

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.116

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• Always speak the truth.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Speak

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• As long as you are pure of heart, you speak the truth.

  Umar

  Heart, Long, Speak

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