Saying The Truth Quotes

• In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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• There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

  Daniel Webster

  Truth, Honesty, Powerful

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “Legal arguments and speeches to the jury. Diplomatic and official papers. Miscellaneous letters”, p.68

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• Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

  Spencer Johnson

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

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• Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

  Josh Billings

  Honesty, Ethics, Wealth

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• The truth needs so little rehearsal.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Truth, Honesty, Needs

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• Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.485, Courier Corporation

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• Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

  James E. Faust

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

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• I never know how much of what I say is true.

  Bette Midler

  Funny, Truth, Cynicism

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• I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Success, Truth

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 2, 1595.

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• Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Truth

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

  Richard J. Needham

  Honesty, People, Satisfaction

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• Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

  Josh Billings

  Wisdom, Truth, Honesty

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• When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Truth, Military, Writing

  "American Speaker : Your Guide to Successful Speaking". Book by Aram Bakshian, 1992.

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  But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

  Howard Zinn

  Revolutionary, Telling The Truth, Truth Be Told

  Howard Zinn (1999). “Marx in Soho: A Play on History”, p.4, South End Press

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• If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Truth, Political Will

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.150, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Honesty, Men, World

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• What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Honesty, Answers

  Essays "Of Truth" (1625). The Biblical reference is to John 18:38.

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• If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Truth, Inspiration

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.197, Wordsworth Editions

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• The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Truth, Science, Discovery

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trust, Travel, Truth

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• When in doubt tell the truth.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Truth, Honesty

  Following the Equator ch. 2, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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  Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

  William Faulkner

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Trust, Truth

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• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

  Stephen King

  Trust, Liars, Lying

  Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

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