Telling The Truth Quotes

• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.

  P. C. Cast

  Running, Lying, Long

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.477, Macmillan

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• In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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  Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

  William Faulkner

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Success, Lying

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 14, 2010

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• When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

  Thomas Sowell

  Truth, Lying, Helping Others

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.398, Basic Books

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• Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

  Spencer Johnson

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

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• There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Hate, Love You, People

  Twitter post from Jul 9, 2017

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• This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

  Ally Condie

  Honesty, Cutting, Balance

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.214, Penguin

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• One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward

  Gay Hendricks

  Inspirational, Punishment, Expectations

  Gay Hendricks, Kathlyn Hendricks (2009). “Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Committment”, p.118, Bantam

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• Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.

  Ronald Knox

  Truth, Believe, People

  Ronald Knox (2012). “The Viaduct Murder”, p.56, Hachette UK

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

  Donald Miller

  Meaningful, Cheating, Truth Is

  Twitter post from Dec 08, 2015

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• Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Holocaust, Remembrance

  Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986

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• If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational, Honesty, Lying

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3151, Delphi Classics

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• I tell the truth. And I know what I'm talking about. That's why I'm a threat.

  Snoop Dogg

  Talking, Threat, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists.

  Newt Gingrich

  People, Terrorist, Ought

  "'This Week' Transcript: Jon Huntsman, Plus Analysis of the ABC News Iowa Debate". Interview with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. December 11, 2011.

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• No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

  Sara Shepard

  Liars, Lying, Believe

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• Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

  Paula Danziger

  Silly, Writing, People

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

  Karen Marie Moning

  Dishonesty, Enough, Increase

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.916, Dell

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• Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.

  William S. Burroughs

  Forever, Shut Up

  William S. Burroughs, Allen Hibbard (1999). “Conversations with William S. Burroughs”, p.2, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?

  Lauren Oliver

  Liars, Lying

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Spiritual, Silence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• Try to live so that you can always tell the truth.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Trying

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• Look, I'm not a demon here. I don't eat babies or kick puppies. I just tell the truth." She shrugged. "Can I help it if that makes the liars of the world angry?

  Maggie Shayne

  Baby, Liars, Looks

  Charlaine Harris, Maggie Shayne, Barbara Hambly (2009). “Night's Edge: Dancers in the Dark\Her Best Enemy\Someone Else's Shadow”, p.139, HQN Books

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