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• Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

  Aleister Crowley

  Truth, Improbable

  Aleister Crowley (1907). “Konx Om Pax: Essays in Light”

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• The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

  Susan Howatch

  Truth, Sound, Advantage

  FaceBook post by Susan Howatch from May 12, 2015

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• If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

  Charles George Gordon

  Truth, Infinite, Ifs

  Charles George Gordon (1888). “Letters of General C.G. Gordon to His Sister, M.A. Gordon”, London ; New York : Macmillan

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• It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

  Arthur Balfour

  Truth, Ifs, Desirable

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• It is a mystery, and to tell the truth, I am intrigued by mysteries even if this is to be my last week of enjoying them. I would welcome some glimmer of understanding but, failing that, working on the puzzle will suffice.

  Dan Simmons

  Understanding, Lasts, Welcome

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.32, Spectra

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• The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.

  Robert Breault

  Lying, Firsts, Steps

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• When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Stories, Down And

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• I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.

  Robert Evans

  Age, World, Morality

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• Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings the news and passes on the histories. The teacher, the bard, the singer of tales is a freer of men's minds and bodies, especially when he roams without allegiance to one chieftain or another. But he is also a danger to the masters if he insists upon telling the truth. The truth will inevitably cause tremors in those who cling to power without honoring justice.

  Kate Horsley

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  Kate Horsley (2002). “Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel”, p.87, Shambhala Publications

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• Faith is acting like God is telling the truth.

  Tony Evans

  Servant Of God, Acting, Trust In God

  FaceBook post by Tony Evans from Mar 21, 2014

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• Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

  Simon Sinek

  Trust, People, Want

  Twitter post from Jul 09, 2012

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• [L]et us say that we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are forced to tell the truth, we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it.

  Michel Foucault

  Order, Needs, Demand

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• It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.

  Kitty Kelley

  Writing, Would Be, Tests

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• I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Book, Writing

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• My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

  W. H. Auden

  People, Feelings, Politics

  W H Auden (1981). “Antæus”, Ecco Press

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• Tell the truth and not the facts.

  Maya Angelou

  Facts

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• Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Medicine, Stronger, Emptiness

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• At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sex, Doe, Opinion

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own (Annotated)”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

  Sally Mann

  Photographer, Emily

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• Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Artist, Quality, Timelessness

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• Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.

  Bell Hooks

  Honesty, Heart, Commitment

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• Tell the truth and make it rhyme

  John Lennon

  Rhyme

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• I tell the truth; listen everyone. Only those who have Loved, will realise the Lord

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Lord, Realising

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• Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.

  Maya Angelou

  Want, Leading Me, Let Me

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2013

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• An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.

  Will Durant

  Men, Play, Skills

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1954). “The story of civilization”

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