Truth Telling Quotes

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.

Sometimes we believe it is truth, not because it is truth but because it has been made truth by law or tradition. Some of those truths are nothing but dogmatized myths

The truth is like sunlight: It causes cancer.

Funny how we do not realize the true value and legacy of a living icon until they suddenly pass away. Truth is, there are many living legends among us, we just do not stop and take time to notice their worth until it's too late.

I dispute the point that nuclear energy is 'clean' and 'cost-effective'. As I recall, when we first harnessed nuclear power it was to drop an atom bomb on a civilian population, not to save the environment. However, you must admit, the victors are never tried for war crimes.

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.

You are never left out from the experience of love. You can always give and receive love right from where you're at. It's always up to you.

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.

Once you reject fear, you will become the perfect candidate to receive and reflect Truth.

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

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.

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 us, and we have a profound stake, beyond the personal, in the project of describing our reality as candidly and fully as we can to each other.

You can't be jealous of someone else's results. You don't know the prayer, process, sacrifice, and work they endured for it.

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

A lie, when believed, became the truth.

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

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Truth is only relative to those that ignore hard evidence.

It's true not because it's beyond doubt, but because we believe it to be true. We make it true. We are safe as long as no one can disprove us

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

A human being who trades away individuality for conformity is nothing but a slave.

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

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

Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality.

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

Just like you silly bums, I have a personal sky god. I bow to him, as you do to your airy-fairy sod. He prefers I call him Mr. NOT.

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.

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

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

Any religion that cannot stand up to a modern scientific reasoning, and to rational proof, is asinine

First of all understand that I get it. That there are millions and millions of women who are steely eyed realists. And millions and millions of men who are anything but. However. For lack of a better term I would say that the feminine values are the values of america :Sensitivity is more important than Truth. Feeling are more important than Facts. Commitment is more important than Individuality. Children are more important than People. Safety is more important than Fun.I always hear women say 'Y'know married men live longer'. Yes. And an indoor cat also, lives longer.

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.

We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts.

Only in duality consciousness we witness this-that thing. In reality, a unity consciousness runs as the very soul of every little thing.

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.

I'm joking when I say I'm the grand-pop of those claiming to be an avatar-messiah or god. But if they're serious, then, I am who I am.

Simply put, That Which Is - what most of us call God - is not a physical person nor a this or that spirit etc. Is the Quintessence of All That Is.

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

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.

The sooner the jihadis go up to their imagined #heaven, the sooner our earth would be a heaven.

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.

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. Select word pictures might accurately portray what I perceive and still be vague, blatantly inaccurate, completely meaningless, misleading, distorted, or incomprehensible in other persons’ minds.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I have to tell you the truth. But you are too ugly for it.

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

Dare to oppose yourself.

If I bad mouth the Truth, and nothing but the Absolute Truth, then, kick my butt. Otherwise, ye of bad faith, keep your stupid trap shut.

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

Be honest. This applies to every area of your life. Sketchiness is not an attractive trait. No more trying to cover up your baggage, sweeping things under the rug, withholding truth, blatant lying, or even telling seemingly ‘harmless’ white lies or half-truths – release the need to lie completely! Start NOW.

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

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

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

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.

If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.