Speak The Truth Quotes - Page 9

• I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

  Agatha Christie

  Believe, Silly, Way

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.

  Edmund Burke

  Truth, Exercise, Men

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3863, Delphi Classics

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• When a woman has the opportunity to speak truth to power, it's important that she does, even if it's just trying to get a crosswalk in her neighborhood. That's how social change happens!

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Opportunity, Important, Trying

  "Meet Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (and Take Her Work Advice)". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2014.

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• Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Truth, People, Speak

  Joyce Carol Oates (1973). “Do with Me You Will”

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• Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.

  John Tillotson

  Mean, Men, May

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• Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.

  Storm Jameson

  Draws, Exhilarating

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.92, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Men, Independence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.675, Modern Library

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• I believe the American people are looking for someone to speak the truth.

  Ted Cruz

  Believe, People, Speak

  Ted Cruz at GOP primary debate in Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• If you speak the truth, you spoil the game.

  Mike Caro

  Games, Speak, Spoil

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• Babes crying in the wilderness know that the world already has plenty of terrifying noise, but there aren't enough clear voices to smooth our troubled journey through the darkness ... only a few can speak truth to power.

  Thomas H. Cook

  Journey, Voice, Darkness

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• To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative gifts that the Creator has given you.

  Common

  Imagination, Creative, Use

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• A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Latin, Phrases, Way

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• If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.

  R. C. Sproul

  Liars, People, High Standards

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• I'm gonna speak the truth until the day I die!

  Jeffree Star

  Speak, Dies

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• A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Lying, Boys, Desire

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Ghost Stories”, p.88, Mondial

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• To me to be a storyteller is you got to be able to speak the truth. You've got to be able to absorb life and take in life and be able to interpret it in a way that anybody in this room could say, "Man, that's my story. I can relate to that."

  Common

  Men, Stories, Able

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• When people listen to people like me, those of us who have a platform, we have to say things that speak truth. We have to empower, inspire, build, and launch the next generation of world solutions that will positively contribute to our economic, political and social fabric and - hopefully - improve the entire nation and the world.

  Farrah Gray

  People, Empowering, Political

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• I think wherever we are, we can create an atmosphere of openness and trust, where women and those who feel marginalized feel safe to speak the truth of their lives.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Thinking, Atmosphere, Safe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.

  William Ellery Channing

  Integrity, Suffering, Done

  William Ellery Channing, William Henry Channing (1860). “Memoir of William Ellery Channing, with extracts from his correspondence and manuscripts ...”, p.424

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• I try to, in my own fallible way, speak the truth.

  Cornel West

  Trying, Way, Speak

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• Donald Trump is going to speak the truth to the American people.

  Mike Pence

  People, Speak, Trump

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• As far as I'm concerned, I just speak the truth.

  Conor McGregor

  Speak, Concerned

  "Conor McGregor On The Truth In Trash Talk, Custom Suits And His Knitting Circle". Interview With Joel Balsam, www.askmen.com.

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• I believe in the platform of the Libertarian party, which is different from that of the other two parties and I believe that it would be good for the country if the Libertarians were - had a seat at the table to speak truth to power of the other two parties, which now have this monopoly in Washington. Having said that, I'm not taking back anything I said about the massive difference between the two establishment party candidates.

  William Weld

  Country, Party, Believe

  "Libertarian Party VP nominee Bill Weld basically just endorsed Hillary Clinton" by Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. November 2, 2016.

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• To speak truth to power is not a particularly honorable vocation. One should seek out an audience that matters - and furthermore (another important qualification), it should not be seen as an audience, but as a community of common concern in which one hopes to participate constructively.

  Noam Chomsky

  Community, Important, Matter

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• There is a big disincentive to talk about the truth. I will speak the truth.

  Geert Wilders

  Speak, Bigs

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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