Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 35

• But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

  Vanessa Kerry

  Believe, Fighting, Away From You

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• A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

  Virginia Woolf

  Feminist

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• Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most.

  Eve Ensler

  Cities, Giving, Joy

  Eve Ensler (2013). “In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection”, p.212, Macmillan

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• To tell the truth is to become beautiful.

  June Jordan

  Beautiful, Love Yourself, I Love Myself

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• I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant. I can smell it from here. It must offend a lot of people. That's the truth. But how many people have told you that? Instead, they either lie or try to avoid your company.

  Robert Cormier

  Hurt, Lying, Mean

  Robert Cormier (2013). “Tenderness”, p.32, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Liars

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

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• It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

  David Levithan

  Lying, Faces, Harder

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.83, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you can convince yourself you are beautiful. But mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth.

  Marissa Meyer

  Beautiful, Vanity, Mirrors

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• And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

  William Faulkner

  Liars, Lying, Men

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.

  Umberto Eco

  Lying, Order, Discipline

  Umberto Eco (1976). “A Theory of Semiotics”, p.7, Indiana University Press

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• If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone’s a liar.

  Gregg Olsen

  Wall, Liars, Lying

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• The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Memories, Giving, Childhood

  Herbert Marcuse (2015). “Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud”, p.19, Beacon Press

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• but even the facts do not always tell the truth

  Paul Auster

  Facts

  Paul Auster (2011). “Collected Prose”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• You don't like it that I am the one you need to keep the wolf from the door; that comes as no surprise. But I am the one you have. At some point we'll both have to risk telling the truth.

  Juliet Marillier

  Doors, Risk, Needs

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• There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Lying, Two

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• And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain.

  Mary Oliver

  Letting Go, Rain, Want

  Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself otherwise, she was telling the truth. "It's just that I don't belong here." He gave her a meloncholy smile. "If it's any consolation, when I was growing up, I didn't feel like I belonged here, either. I dreamed about going to New York. But it's strange, because when I finally escaped this place, I ended up missing it more than I thought I would. There's something about the ocean that just calls to me.

  Nicholas Sparks

  New York, Growing Up, Hate

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Lying, People, Sometimes

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.

  Francoise Sagan

  Believe, Thinking, Drunk

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• Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  World, This World, Forgiven

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• I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

  Tennessee Williams

  Important, Fifty, Illusion

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• No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

  Ann Patchett

  Want Something, People, Horrible

  Ann Patchett (2012). “State of Wonder”, p.382, A&C Black

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• A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, People, Littles

  John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.66, Penguin

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• Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

  Neal Shusterman

  Lying, Fate, Should Have

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• I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Nature, Truth

  "What I Believe". The Forum Magazine, Issue 84 (p. 139), September 1930.

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