If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.
In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
The person I like most is the one who points out my defects
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?' We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.
If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my patients tell me is likely to be true - that many times when I believed that I was right and my patients were wrong, it turned out, though often only after a prolonged search, that my rightness was superficial whereas their rightness was profound.
Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.
I want people to see the truth... regardless of who they are... because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.
The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.
I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.
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