6 Quotes About Telling The Truth
Quotes and sayings of Joseph Goebbels: If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is. When in doubt tell the truth. Seek truth and you will find a path. Frank Slaughter. Tell all the truth but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson. In deep insecurity is truth realised. Jiddu Krishnamurti. It is truth alone that gives strength. Swami Vivekananda.
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
-- Adrienne RichFiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
-- Albert CamusI do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
-- Albert CamusWe're in a place where no words can tell the truth about what happened... But they have to. This was hell on earth.
-- Aleksander KwasniewskiThe solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
-- Aleksandr SolzhenitsynWhen you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.
-- Ali VincentShe say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.
-- Alice WalkerI leave a lot out when I tell the truth
-- Amy HempelI don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
-- Anais NinI want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can.
-- Andrew PetersonA writer's job is to tell the truth.
-- Andy RooneyI aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
-- Anita DesaiI wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.
-- Anne BronteThe young are not afraid of telling the truth.
-- Anne FrankTelling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
-- Anthony HopeTo tell the truth is revolutionary.
-- Antonio GramsciTelling the truth is always revolutionary
-- Antonio GramsciOuting is a nasty word for telling the truth.
-- Armistead MaupinIt has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.
-- Arthur BalfourThe existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.
-- Azar NafisiI have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
-- Barbara CartlandWhen men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.
-- Bell HooksIf there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
-- Ben Stein[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.
-- Benazir BhuttoWhen you sing, always tell the truth.
-- Billie HolidayStop telling the truth about my record!
-- Bob DoleWhen you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth?
-- Brady QuinnThe best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.
-- Brandon SandersonI take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.
-- Brittany MurphyWhat 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
- The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
- Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
- Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.
- Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
- The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
- I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.
- Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
- If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
- Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don’t.
- Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- When in doubt, tell the truth.
- Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
- When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
- Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
- Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
- Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
- An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
- There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
- Honesty is the best image.
- Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
- I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.
- Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
- I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
- No legacy is so rich as honesty.
- Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
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