Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 13

• In representing criminal defendants - especially guilty ones - it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put the government on trial for its misconduct. In law, as in sports, the best defense is often a good offense. The courtroom oath - to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth - is applicable only to witnesses... because the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole entire truth.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Sports, Government, Law

  "The Best Defense: The Courtroom Confrontations of America's Most Outspoken Lawyer of Last Resort - the Lawyer Who Won the Claus von Bulow Appeal". Book by Alan Dershowitz, 1982.

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• At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of something beautiful ... The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over - a century after it is over.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Beautiful, War, Book

  Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”

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• Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth.

  Eva LaRue

  Mom, Doe

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• My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.

  Jack LaLanne

  Workout, Years, Way

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• Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Stories, Want

  "Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, June 1, 2009.

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• Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.

  Ken Loach

  Truth, Past, Ifs

  "Ken Loach's 'Wind That Shakes the Barley' Wins Top Prize at Cannes". www.nytimes.com. May 29, 2006.

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• Most people don't get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says 'you can't say that' or 'you shouldn't say that' or 'that wasn't appropriate' so most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK.......Most human beings have an imprinting that if they're real, if they're honest, somebody's not gonna like it. And they won't be able to control their environment if they tell the truth.

  Adyashanti

  Real, People, Childhood

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• One of the things that I think makes it hard in this society for us to tell the truth is the kind of conventional relationship to adversity. Things aren't always easy and rather than being taught to have kindness to ourselves and others in the light of that we're taught something very different; that it's wrong and rejected - that's a lot of conditioning to step away from.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Adversity, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Feb 11, 2015

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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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• I own no TV stations, or Radio Stations or Newspapers. But I feel that people need to be educated as to what is going on, and to understand the connection between the news media and the instruments of repression in Amerika. All I have is my voice, my spirit and the will to tell the truth. But I sincerely ask, those of you in the Black media, those of you in the progressive media, those of you who believe in true freedom, to publish this statement and to let people know what is happening. We have no voice, so you must be the voice of the voiceless.

  Assata Shakur

  Believe, Media, Voice

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• To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.

  Harold Russell

  Boys, Lakes, Sea

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• Theologians are all alike, of whatever religion or country they may be; their aim is always to wield despotic authority over men's consciences; they therefore persecute all of us who have the temerity to tell the truth.

  Frederick The Great

  Country, Men, Atheism

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• Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up.

  Michael Keaton

  Giants, Roles, Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• You can assert a fifth amendment privilege and not testify. But if you go in and swear to tell the truth, then you better do it. Otherwise, if a prosecutor finds that you have testified in a way that is factually incorrect and you had reason to know that it was factually incorrect, then you're guilty of perjury.

  Richard Ben-Veniste

  Fifth Amendment, Way, Privilege

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• It doesn't matter what race you are. It doesn't matter what religion you are. I always tell people: If you want to be a part of hip-hop, you just need to have a heart. You need to have the courage to tell the truth.

  Immortal Technique

  Heart, Race, People

  Source: readersupportednews.org

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• What I've tried to do in politics is two very simple things: tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

  Ted Cruz

  Simple, Two, Said

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• I think our nation faces enormous challenges, and we need leaders who are willing to tell the truth and do the right thing regardless of the consequences.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Leader, Challenges

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.

  Mona Charen

  Block, Character, America

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• If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Loyalty, Husband, Believe

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (1890). “Womankind”

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• The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Night, Men, Speech

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Lying, Merit, Habit

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.55, BookBaby

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• if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, War, Believe

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.853, Wordsworth Editions

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• The Four Rules of Life:
  1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

  Bill Vaughan

  Upset, Attention, Four

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• Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Culture, May, Moral

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.100, Bantam

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• Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.

  Erica Jong

  America, Outcomes, Matter

  Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.9, Penguin

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