Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 15

• To tell the truth
  days are all the same size
  and words aren't much company.

  Anne Sexton

  Size, Company

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• I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict.... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.

  Nora Ephron

  Hurt, Two, Feminist

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.135, Vintage

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• A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

  Karl Kraus

  Truth, Lying, White

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Fiction

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.15, HarperCollins

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• I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth

  Richard M. Nixon

  Wisdom, Facts, Answers

  Checkers, delivered and broadcast live on television 23 September 1952

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• First tell the truth, then give your opinion.

  Dennis Prager

  Giving, Firsts, Opinion

  FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Jan 22, 2017

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• One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Mouths, Grimace

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• ...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.

  Dorothy Allison

  Truth, Lying, Church

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.118, Open Road Media

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• The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth.

  Chris Christie

  Leadership, Health, Eye

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• Science tries to answer the question: "How?" How do cells act in the body? How do you design an airplane that will fly faster thansound? How is a molecule of insulin constructed? Religion, by contrast, tries to answer the question: "Why?" Why was man created? Why ought I to tell the truth? Why must there be sorrow or pain or death? Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

  Warren Weaver

  Pain, Airplane, Science

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• When you realize how hard it is to know the truth about yourself, you understand that even the most exhaustive and well-meaning autobiography, determined to tell the truth, represents, at best, a guess. There have been times in my life when I felt incredibly happy. Life was full. I seemed productive. Then I thought,"Am I really happy or am I merely masking a deep depression with frantic activity?" If I don't know such basic things about myself, who does?

  Phyllis Rose

  Truth, Happy Life, Doe

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• The child's personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before he stands; he babbles before he talks; he fabricates before he tells the truth; he draws a circle before he draws a square; he is selfish before he is altruistic; he is dependent on others before he achieves dependence on self. All of his abilities, including his morals, are subject to laws of growth. The task of child care is not to force him into a predetermined pattern but to guide his growth.

  Arnold Gesell

  Baby, Children, Selfish

  Arnold Gesell, Frances Lillian Ilg (1951). “Infant and Child in the Culture of Today: The Guidance of Development in Home and Nursery School (From the Former Clinic of Child Development, School of Medicine at Yale University)”

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• Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.

  William H. Macy

  Religious, Guy, Trying

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• WikiLeaks serves as a back-up for those who want to tell the truth about the inner workings of government when the mainstream media is not willing or taking too long to publish.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Government, Media, Long

  "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers". PBS Live Chat, www.pbs.org. October 5, 2010.

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• Playing guitar is like telling the truth.

  B. B. King

  Guitar, Playing Guitar

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• For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Lying, Believe, Long

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• We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not playing ages or being coy or being manipulative, but is telling the truth to the best of his or her ability...We do not wish to be crudely manipulated...We want to be massaged by a masseur, not whapped by a carpet beater.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, Character, Wish

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• When I forget the power of the word, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget the deep relief of telling the truth, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget to look for the holiness all around me, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget why the gospel matters, I read Frederick Buechner.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Relief, Looks, Holiness

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• The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Lying, Mouths

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• Tell the truth as soon as you know it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Truth, Knows

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• In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems give us a profound glimpse into how the events of a life can form a center of gravity that fixes the self in its force field. Theres a cold, truth-telling clarity about them that makes them as unsettling as they are beautiful. Ansie Baird has created a richly-drawn world in which this elemental drama plays out, and the result is vivid, startling poems in which pain has left its indelible tracks.

  Chase Twichell

  Beautiful, Pain, Drama

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• How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have to be killed before you summon the courage to tell the truth to the American people?

  Don Winslow

  People, Waste, More Money

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• For most people, love is a response to need fulfillment. Everyone has needs. You need this, another needs that. You both see in each other a chance for need fulfillment. So you agree-tacitly-to a trade. I'll trade you what I've got if you'll give me what you've got. It's a transaction. But you don't tell the truth about it. You don't say, "I trade you very much." You say, "I love you very much," and then the disappointment begins.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Disappointment

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.111, Penguin

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• There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cynical, Politics

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.217, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.

  George D. Prentice

  Lying, People, Deceiving

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