Quotes about truth-telling

In war, the first casualty is truth.

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.

In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

We tend to be judged because of our actions.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

I had a dream, someone came to me and told me "Jesus Christ is coming in a couple days, time is near, only a couple days left for Christ to come" then I saw rocks coming from the air that caused disasters on earth. The end is near, don't ignore this very important message, it's your responsibility to save your soul from hell. The choice is yours, make sure you know your destination.

Our biggest fear is not in expressing the truth but that we will be attacked or belittled because of our truth.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Clarifications create either great communities or great conflicts.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Truth is only relative to those that ignore hard evidence.

Come clean about your true nature before the day the body ceases. Hard not to cling to duality as the excuse, but every brain is manifesting duality as if it is some internal feature projected outward for the attention of others.

Liars don't lie to those who are innocent, they lie to those who know the truth

You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.

You should be proud of the pleasure you give to others' eyes.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth?

So what was it then exactly, this truth-telling? ... It was about being true to the very stuff of life, it was about trying to capture, though you never could, the very feel of being alive. It was about finding a language. And it was about being true to the fact, the one thing only followed from the other, that many things in life —of so many more than we think—can never be explained at all.

You can't speak life to others if you don't know how to speak life to yourself. Dead leaves can't breathe.

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

A trusted man doesn't flip-flop on where he stands. He says what he means and stand where he stands.He's not easily influenced by fear. He's influenced by destiny and will not be taken advantage of.

Women have been driven mad, "gaslighted," for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have a primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each others' sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.Women have often felt insane when cleaving to the truth of our experience. Our future depends on the sanity of each of

A woman in love with another woman is revolution’s revolution: it is not an act of war. it is not an act of desperation. it is not an act of fear. it is - it always has been and it always, always will be - an act of love.

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say 'tell the truth,' and when you do, they don't believe you. What's the point?

Words are not cubicles for truth telling. Words do not allow us to touch the face of God or define the contours of the soul. Words are imprecise and cannot capture all aspects of reality or replicate all facets of a person’s emotional mélange. Language allows for limited explorations of reality and minimal probing of the human mind. I accept that the only possible relation between language and the world is the image displayed in each person’s head by the picture invoking ability of language. Sel

If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie.

Truth is like beauty it lies in the mind of the beholder

I don’t care what you meant to do. I really don’t.I only care about what you actually do. That’s important. The rest of it is just a bunch of bull shit.---Grace.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy it is absolutely essential to it.

I have wondered that even in the era of colour the black and white photographs are so appealing? I feel that as per saying - in black and white -they speak the truth.

Some people should never be told truth. Their stomachs are not mature enough for that type of food

Truth was not meant to be told but found

Do not marvel brothers if the world hates you, the world rejected and rebelled against God and His truth.

All of us can lie but it is not a must that we should lie.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.

Seen from the point of view of a lie, the truth is often touted as radical.

And came to her a realization that the largest humiliation for the person was a lie. And the viler the one to whom you lie, the greater is the humiliation.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.

Truth is much like fire. Hard to understand, ever-changing.

I write to remind me of the experiences, fictional or non-fictional, that flows a bit of selfless truths. For the me in the ‘I’, or the me through your eyeballs, it is a serum to separate the lumpiness in my heart.

Be careful, Hally.""Of what? The truth? I seem to be the only one around here who is prepared to face it.

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

If you tell me the truth, the truth I’ll proclaim.If you tell me a lie, you’ll be fair game.

Frankly, the only good people who I know are dogs.

I am accountable for every lie that I tell, but I am also accountable for the effects of every harsh truth I deliver.

the problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths

The Truth Is That I Was Recognized For Stubbornness And Not Goodness. Even, Though I Was Very Intelligent And Sent To School By A Little Few Supports From Sponsors And My Mother. My Brain Was Never Ever Cool. Due To All The Mistakes I Saw From A Very Tender Age From All Those Whom I Looked Upon As Elders And Shinning Examples. Although They Where Some Good Examples Which Still Live On. Still The Early Damaged As Already Been Done. So It Led Me Dropping Out Of School In To Working And Using The G

The time has come for women and men to band together to jointly create gender harmony. We must gather in mixed group to plumb new depths of relational awareness, courageous truth-telling, compassionate listening, empathic sensitivity, and mutual healing.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.

Why do you need that thing?" September asked. "None of the airports back home have them.""They do. You just can't see them right," Betsy Basilstalk said with a grin. "All customs agents have them, otherwise, why would people agree to stand in line and be peered at and inspected? We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say, lines on maps are silly. Where you live, the awful machinery is smaller, harder to see. Less honest, that'

People who say "no" right away are usually lying. A truthful person is perfectly capable of saying "no" but generally they stop and think about it first. And they add "sorry" or something like that. Maybe they come out with some questions of their own. It's human nature. They say, "Sorry, no, why, what happened?

And so it was said "tell me your lies and I will help you keep them"And by wisdom attained it was realized that this was not the way. And so it was said "tell me your lies and I will help you heal them in truth without repercussion or judgement; in understanding, compassion and forgiveness.

Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn

I'm so tired of people who can't be honest. "Beauty is on the inside" Really?? Then why do rich guys & successful guys always end up with beautiful women but they have lousy personalities?.

A lie, when believed, became the truth.

You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.

What is worse than doing evil, is being evil” (Ethics, p.67). To lie is wrong, but what is worse than the lie is the liar, for the liar contaminates everything he says, because everything he says is meant to further a cause that is false. The liar as liar has endorsed a world of falsehood and deception, and to focus only on the truth or falsity of his particular statements is to miss the danger of being caught up in his twisted world. This is why, as Bonhoeffer says, that “(i)t is worse for a li

Don't lie to protect my feelings. I'd rather you speak the truth with love and respect. I'll be fine!

Tell the truth about any situation & you are delivered from lack of progress, but become hypocritical or lying, and you may be in bondage for life.

Truth is like a bright full moon in a dark country sky. Powerful, bright and undeniable. Lies are like clouds that continually try to cover that moon. Sometimes they might be able to cover the moon, but only temporarily. The truth will always outshine the clouds.

Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?

People forget that there's two sides to every story. Of course somebody is going to tell the side of it that makes them look good and exaggerate the rest to make everyone else look bad.

The truth is like sunlight: It causes cancer.

Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

The story unfolded quickly as I typed, in a way I was becoming familiar with. There was something about putting the truth on paper, bringing facts into the light of day where everyone could look at them, that made my fingers move faster -- it was becoming one of my favorite sensations on earth.

Do What?' 'Lie,' he said. 'Why do you fabricate these outlandish stories?''Well,' I wanted to say, 'there are those of us who create because all around us, things visible and invisible are crumbling. We are like the stonemasons of Babylon, forever working, as it says in Jeremiah, to shore up the city of walls.'I didn't say that, of course. What I did say was: 'I don't know.

Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.

All people express a fondness for truth and sincerity, yet many people prefer to live with their illusions and delusions. A person’s sincere desire to believe only what is true oftentimes does not trump their ingrained resistance to truths that fail to coincide with their deeply held desires. People reject truth because it undercuts what they wish was true and despise or discredit anyone whom offers a different version of truth than they are prepared to accept.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.