Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 27

• When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'

  Wendy Cope

  Firsts, Asks

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• Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

  Huston Smith

  Teacher, Real, Special

  Huston Smith (2003). “The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life”, p.196, Univ of California Press

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• President Bush intends to abrogate U.S. sovereignty to the North American Union, a new economic and political entity which the President is quietly forming....Why doesn't President Bush just tell the truth? His secret agenda is to dissolve the United States of America into the North American Union.

  Jerome Corsi

  America, Political, Secret

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• If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.

  Elaine Stritch

  Jail, Long, Ends

  "The Way We Live Now: 2-24-02: Questions For Elaine Stritch; Of A Certain Age". Interview with Liz Welch, www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2002.

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• This is what I've been waiting for my whole life. A President who's not afraid to tell the truth about being a lying a**hole.

  Lewis Black

  Lying, Waiting, President

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• I will never apologize to the Jewish community
  for telling the truth

  Louis Farrakhan

  Community, Jewish Community, Apologizing

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• My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

  Gerry Spence

  May, Realizing, Blasphemy

  "Give Me Liberty! Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century". Book by Gerry Spence, 1998.

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• The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think

  June Jordan

  Thinking, Firsts, Function

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• Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Political, Politician

  "Civilization Envy" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. September 28, 2001.

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• We're in a place where no words can tell the truth about what happened... But they have to. This was hell on earth.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Earth, Hell, Happened

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• It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.

  Gregg Allman

  Black And White, Color, Live Your Life

  "Song: "Wolf's A' Howlin'"". 1997.

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• A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

  Tom Morello

  Responsibility, Artist, Simple

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• Come little cottage girl, you seem to want my cup of tea; and will you take a little cream? Now tell the truth to me!

  Barry Pain

  Girl, Tea, Cottages

  Barry Pain (1892). “Playthings and Parodies”, London [etc.] Cassell

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• To tell the truth, I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker.

  Joseph Hooker

  War, Lost, Civil War

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• The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as one's autobiography writ large, surely not the path to general truth. On the other hand, there is the attempt to be general and objective by pretending that one knows nothing about the experience of being human, forcing the investigator to pretend that people usually know and tell the truth about important issues, when we all know from our own lives how impossible that is.

  Richard Lewontin

  Hands, Issues, People

  "Sex, Lies, and Social Science". The New York Review of Books, www.nybooks.com. April 20, 1995.

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• I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Saws

  William Shakespeare, Mr. John Dryden, Thomas Shadwell (1750). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays”

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• I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  People, Hierarchy, Anarchy

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  It does not take many words to tell the truth

  Sitting Bull

  Doe

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• I leave a lot out when I tell the truth

  Amy Hempel

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

  Edmond Rostand

  Men, Pessimist, Optimists And Pessimists

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• Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want.

  Ivy Lee

  Inspirational, Change, Truth

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• The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them.

  D. A. Carson

  Jesus, Important, Truthful

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• Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

  Joan of Arc

  Men, Sometimes

  Saint Joan (of Arc), Thomas de Courcelles, Guillaume Manchon, Pierre Cauchon, Catholic Church. Diocese of Beauvais (France) (1931). “The trial of Jeanne d'Arc”

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• You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.

  Auberon Waugh

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Some people accused me of being pro-Muslim in Bosnia, but I realised that our job is to give all sides an equal hearing, but in cases of genocide you can't just be neutral. You can't just say, 'Well, this little boy was shot in the head and killed in besieged Sarajevo and that guy over there did it, but maybe he was upset because he had an argument with his wife.' No, there is no equality there, and we had to tell the truth.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Jobs, Boys, Wife

  "What we do is really tough" by Julie Ferry, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2007.

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