Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 12

• Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth.

  Eva LaRue

  Mom, Doe

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• At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of something beautiful ... The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over - a century after it is over.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Beautiful, War, Book

  Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”

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• As a writer I want everybody to get a chance to voice their opinions. If each character thinks that they're telling the truth, then it's valid. Then at the end of the film, I leave it up to the audience to decide who did the right thing.

  Spike Lee

  Character, Thinking, Voice

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• In the 13 months I've been in the Senate, it has become apparent to me the single thing that Republican politicians hate and fear the most, and that is when they're forced to tell the truth. It makes their heads explode.

  Ted Cruz

  Hate, Months, Republican

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• It appears to Nietzsche that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan who raises himself ... and in his need calls upon holy nature. Then Goethe's man ... a spectator of the world ... Third Schopenhauer's man ... voluntarily takes upon himself the pain of telling the truth.

  Georg Brandes

  Pain, Men, Age

  "An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism" by Georg Brandes, 1889.

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• What I've tried to do in politics is two very simple things: tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

  Ted Cruz

  Simple, Two, Said

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• I think our nation faces enormous challenges, and we need leaders who are willing to tell the truth and do the right thing regardless of the consequences.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Leader, Challenges

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.

  Jack LaLanne

  Workout, Years, Way

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• the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.

  Molly Ivins

  Texas, Wind, Trying

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.3, Vintage

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• Theologians are all alike, of whatever religion or country they may be; their aim is always to wield despotic authority over men's consciences; they therefore persecute all of us who have the temerity to tell the truth.

  Frederick The Great

  Country, Men, Atheism

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• When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.

  Tennessee Williams

  Fashion, Art, Writing

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• You can assert a fifth amendment privilege and not testify. But if you go in and swear to tell the truth, then you better do it. Otherwise, if a prosecutor finds that you have testified in a way that is factually incorrect and you had reason to know that it was factually incorrect, then you're guilty of perjury.

  Richard Ben-Veniste

  Fifth Amendment, Way, Privilege

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• Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Stories, Want

  "Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, June 1, 2009.

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• To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Fire, Sight, House

  "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.

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• Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.

  Erica Jong

  America, Outcomes, Matter

  Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.9, Penguin

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• The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Diplomats, Sensitive, Organs

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.251, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

  Bernard Berenson

  Lying, Home, Would Be

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• Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Culture, May, Moral

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.100, Bantam

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• The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Night, Men, Speech

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Loyalty, Husband, Believe

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (1890). “Womankind”

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• In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Ignorance, Reality, Names

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• ... when caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that?

  Iris Murdoch

  Caught

  Iris Murdoch (1977). “Under the Net”, p.16, Penguin

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• To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.

  Harold Russell

  Boys, Lakes, Sea

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• Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.

  Mona Charen

  Block, Character, America

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• I own no TV stations, or Radio Stations or Newspapers. But I feel that people need to be educated as to what is going on, and to understand the connection between the news media and the instruments of repression in Amerika. All I have is my voice, my spirit and the will to tell the truth. But I sincerely ask, those of you in the Black media, those of you in the progressive media, those of you who believe in true freedom, to publish this statement and to let people know what is happening. We have no voice, so you must be the voice of the voiceless.

  Assata Shakur

  Believe, Media, Voice

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