Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 23

• I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present within ourselves. It tells the truth about the human condition - that we're not okay.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Christian, Reality, Names

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn't offer a cure. It doesn't offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Healing, Church, Might

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.209, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

  Eudora Welty

  Voice, Honest, Speak

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• If you will stop all searching right now and tell the truth to yourself,
  you will know what is known in the core of your bones.
  You will know it with no image of it, no concept of it, no thought of it.
  You will know it as that which has eternally been here.
  And you will know it as yourself.

  Gangaji

  Bones, Truth To Yourself, Right Now

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• That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is a lie, except in the sense that Cocteau wrote one day: I am a lie who always tells the truth. The only poetry which lies purely and simply is academic, pseudo-classical, conceptually repetitive poetry, and it is not poetry.

  Jacques Maritain

  Plato, Lying, Thinking

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• Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.

  Adrian Tan

  Busy, Truth Is, Goodness

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• I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.

  Jack Kirby

  Lying, Men, Suffering

  Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/7.

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• I am scared of my father to this day. My father walked in the room - and God knows I am telling the truth - I have fainted in his presence many times. I have fainted once to be honest. I have thrown up in his presence because when he comes in the room and this aura comes and my stomach starts hurting and I know I am in trouble.

  Michael Jackson

  Hurt, Father, Auras

  Source: www.today.com

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• Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

  Isaac Asimov

  Lying, Reputation, Scientist

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• Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

  Mark Twain

  Doubt, Fiction, Use

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• Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite.

  Judith Viorst

  Lying, Truth Is, Manners

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• Tell the truth, lies are difficult to remember.

  William Cranch Bond

  Lying, Remember, Difficult

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• What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked. “I’d think that you were lying,” Vin said. “Have you known me to lie before?” “The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Liars, Lying, Thinking

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.270, Macmillan

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• I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.

  Katherine Applegate

  Facts, Sometimes, Stella

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• There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.

  Stephen King

  Pain, People, Waiting

  Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.

  Susan Cain

  Envy, Desire, Ugly

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.218, Broadway Books

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• I never lie- except for the few times I do in fact lie, but it's never intentional, and i'm totally telling the truth right now" She raised her right hand "promise".

  Gena Showalter

  Lying, Hands, Promise

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Craving”, p.17, HQN Books

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• Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

  Bell Hooks

  Lying, People, Would Be

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• I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.

  Roberto Bolano

  Decided, Ifs

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• I should’ve been furious, but for some reason I wasn’t. Maybe because I knew he was telling the truth. Maybe because Voron left me just like that, without the much-needed explanations. Maybe because things I had learned about him since his death had made me doubt everything he’d ever said to me. Whatever the case, I felt only a hollow, crushing sadness. How touching. I understood my adoptive father’s killer. Maybe after this was over, Hugh’s head and I could sing “Kumbaya” together by the fire.

  Ilona Andrews

  Crush, Father, Sadness

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.85, Penguin

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• It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sarcastic, Lying, Able

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.34, Penguin

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• When you sing, always tell the truth.

  Billie Holiday

  Music, Jazz

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• I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Long, Mind

  Mark Twain (1984). “Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions”, Harpercollins

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• When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Doubt, Use

  Mark Twain (2008). “Mark Twain's Speeches: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.393, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Self, People

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.271, Courier Corporation

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