Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 34

• An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Enemy, Cynicism, Altruism

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• The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Kindness, Men, Way

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• Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?

  Patrick Sky

  Honesty, Reality, Enough

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• Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

  Theresa Breslin

  Lying, Heart, Soul

  "Medici Seal". Book by Theresa Breslin, August 3, 2006.

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• There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.

  Felicity Kendal

  Moving, Way, Lips

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• Truth-telling to Congress and the public is not disloyal in America: it is an expression of the higher loyalty officials owe to the Constitution, the rule of law, and the sovereign public. It is a courageous, patriotic, and effective way to serve our country. The time to speak out is now.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Loyalty, Country, Time

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• Even through such simple acts as telling the truth, being kind, and encouraging others, we bring a smile to God's face.

  Rick Warren

  Positive, Simple, Be Kind

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.88, Zondervan

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• The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

  A. A. Gill

  Art, Knowledge, Ideas

  A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

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• The Truth must be told at all costs, no matter how unpopular it may be. The authentic spiritual leader, having freed himself of his own false need to be popular, tells the Truth whether it falls on fertile or stony ground. Such a teacher is the salt of the earth, though few know it. If you think the world is delirious as is, you would find it intolerable without his healing influence.

  Vernon Howard

  Spiritual, Teacher, Fall

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• Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.

  Juan Williams

  Airplane, Npr, Yesterday

  "JUAN WILLIAMS: I Was Fired for Telling the Truth" By Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2010.

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• I first studied to be a preacher, but decided that I was too prone to tell big stories. Then I studied Blackstone for a while and soon learned that I was not adept enough at prevarication to make a successful lawyer. I then made up my mind that I would seek some field where I could tell big stories and tell the truth.

  Isaac Cline

  Successful, Mind, Stories

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• I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

  Shelby Lynne

  People, Surround

  "An everyday tale of country folk" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2001.

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• Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.

  Phillips Brooks

  Fighting, Winning, Live Your Life

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• Love everyone, serve everyone, remember God, and tell the truth.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  Remember, Love Everyone

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• When everyone in America knows you're in a dreadful position, admit you're in a dreadful position. Don't lie about it and make them roll their eyes, tell the truth and make them blink.

  Peggy Noonan

  Lying, Eye, America

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• Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom have a vested interest in [him] and who are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him.

  Lerone Bennett, Jr.

  Church, Priests, Interest

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• Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.

  Mother Angelica

  Love You, Want, Truth Love

  "Mother Angelica Live", www.imdb.com. (1983-).

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• When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.

  Greg Cox

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• I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can.

  Andrew Peterson

  Use, Want, I Can

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• History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Martyr, Changed

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.15, Macmillan

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• How many slams in an old screen door? 
  Depends how loud you shut it. 
  How many slices in a bread? 
  Depends how thin you cut it. 
  How much good inside a day? 
  Depends how good you live 'em. 
  How much love inside a friend? 
  Depends how much you give 'em.” 
  ― How Many, How Much by Shel Silverstein
  “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

  Stephanie Klein

  Friendship, Real Friends, Cutting

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• The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.

  Jonathan Messinger

  Fear, Pages, Impulse

  Jonathan Messinger (2007). “Hiding Out”, p.179, featherproof books

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• Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened by a belief in god. No lower opinion of the human race has ever been expressed.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Race

  Joseph Lewis, Robert Green Ingersoll (1957). “Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage”

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• When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.

  Bell Hooks

  Lying, Men, Notion

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• There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It’s always heartbreaking.

  Ethan Hawke

  Real, Writing, Heartbreaking

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