Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 24

• Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Trump

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 1, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Truth, Lying, Epigrams

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.26, Random House

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• The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded and disbursed only when absolutely necessary. The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in Hell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lonely, Truth, Lying

  1922 Prejudices, 3rd series, ch.14.

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• There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Truth, Honesty, Men

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• I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

  Anais Nin

  Truth, Use

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• I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Lying, Drinking, Book

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About Thi”, p.205, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Tell the truth. Do your best no matter how trivial the task. Choose the difficult right over the easy wrong. Look out for the group before you look out for yourself. Don't whine or make excuses. Judge others by their actions and not by their race or other characteristics.

  James F. Amos

  Character, Race, Judging

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• To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.

  Sammy Sosa

  Baseball, Thinking, Plates

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• When all else fails, tell the truth.

  Donald T. Regan

  Trust, Truth, Honesty

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• Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Sacred, Morality

  In the Illustrated London News, 24 February 1906.

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• I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.

  Richard Peck

  Humorous, Sound, Gone

  Richard Peck (1996). “Father Figure”, p.69, Penguin

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• We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

  Alison Lurie

  Women, Lying, Silence

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• Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery.

  Martin Jackson

  Doors, Slavery, Slave

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• I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Fall, Thoughtful

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  Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Running, Religious, Fall

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• Tell the Truth, and speak from your pay-grade. Don't try to answer questions that would better be directed to the battalion commander or Gen. William Westmoreland or President Lyndon Johnson. If you are a squad leader, answer questions about what you know and do.

  Hal Moore

  Military, Squad, Leader

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• Outing is a nasty word for telling the truth.

  Armistead Maupin

  Gay, Nasty

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• We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Liars, Believe, Army

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• Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Appreciation, Truth, Real

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Truth, Leader, Important

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.392, John Wiley & Sons

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• You needn't think there is nothing you can do-you can tell the truth.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Truth, Thinking, Can Do

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• If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

  Randy Pausch

  Honesty, Giving, Advice

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Honesty, Realms, Defence

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2738, e-artnow

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• I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.

  Sigmund Freud

  Truth, Merit

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• It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Caution

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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