Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 33

• When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Powerful, Lying, Party

  Orson Scott Card (2012). “Red Prophet: Tales of Alvin maker”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Television, Impossible

  1976 Christ and theMedia,'Questions following the 3rd lecture'.

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• What I respect about my dad is he comes forth and he tells the truth, and he's a very honorable person, I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart.

  Brooke Hogan

  Dad, Heart, Honorable

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The saying is, life is short, but what if it's not? But if life is short, is this how you would like to spend your last days? And if life is long, is this how you want to spend 50, 60, or 70 years? Being ashamed? Being quiet? Hoping no one notices you? Not telling the truth? Walking around heavy? If I die in my sleep tonight, God forbid, I am happy with how I've lived my life. I've lived it truthfully.

  Karrine Steffans

  Life Is Short, Sleep, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Lying, Eye, Tongue

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.71, Lulu.com

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• As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth - whatever the truth may be - that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.

  June Jordan

  Children, May, Taught

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.133, Basic Books

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• I first studied to be a preacher, but decided that I was too prone to tell big stories. Then I studied Blackstone for a while and soon learned that I was not adept enough at prevarication to make a successful lawyer. I then made up my mind that I would seek some field where I could tell big stories and tell the truth.

  Isaac Cline

  Successful, Mind, Stories

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• I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

  Shelby Lynne

  People, Surround

  "An everyday tale of country folk" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2001.

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• Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.

  Phillips Brooks

  Fighting, Winning, Live Your Life

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• Love everyone, serve everyone, remember God, and tell the truth.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  Remember, Love Everyone

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• When everyone in America knows you're in a dreadful position, admit you're in a dreadful position. Don't lie about it and make them roll their eyes, tell the truth and make them blink.

  Peggy Noonan

  Lying, Eye, America

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• Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom have a vested interest in [him] and who are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him.

  Lerone Bennett, Jr.

  Church, Priests, Interest

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• Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.

  Mother Angelica

  Love You, Want, Truth Love

  "Mother Angelica Live", www.imdb.com. (1983-).

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• When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.

  Greg Cox

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• I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can.

  Andrew Peterson

  Use, Want, I Can

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• History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Martyr, Changed

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.15, Macmillan

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• How many slams in an old screen door? 
  Depends how loud you shut it. 
  How many slices in a bread? 
  Depends how thin you cut it. 
  How much good inside a day? 
  Depends how good you live 'em. 
  How much love inside a friend? 
  Depends how much you give 'em.” 
  ― How Many, How Much by Shel Silverstein
  “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

  Stephanie Klein

  Friendship, Real Friends, Cutting

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• The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.

  Jonathan Messinger

  Fear, Pages, Impulse

  Jonathan Messinger (2007). “Hiding Out”, p.179, featherproof books

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• Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened by a belief in god. No lower opinion of the human race has ever been expressed.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Race

  Joseph Lewis, Robert Green Ingersoll (1957). “Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage”

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• When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.

  Bell Hooks

  Lying, Men, Notion

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• There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It’s always heartbreaking.

  Ethan Hawke

  Real, Writing, Heartbreaking

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• 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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