Truth Telling Quotes - Page 2

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

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?.

Clarifications create either great communities or great conflicts.

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

There is no god out there but Oneness of All That Is.

How did I get 'IT'? - By crying, begging, yelping! - Any of this helping?

Everybody dies. Including your messiahs. And gods.

The powerful hate truth that put them in bad light

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

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

People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth

Mostly, all book-told gods are as little as the little men who wrote them idiots into existence.

It's better to be ignorant and live in bliss than know the truth and live in agony.

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

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.

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.

We tend to be judged because of our actions.

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

Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.

Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.

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.

One man's faith is considered idolatry by another

The truth no matter how hard it is to bear, must be accepted and confronted head on because it is real. Businesses and people who accept truth soar.

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.

To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.

Truth is hard, propaganda is cheap.

Just a child is free to wander in one's father's garden, discovering little or big things; it is left to the seeker to grow unto the Nature of the Absolute.

Truth was not meant to be told but found

Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of this life?

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

The god of fools is a fool just like them.

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.

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

Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.

Truth’s nakedness is not concerned with whom it strikes - painfully, or with pleasure; responding appropriately to its ingenuous temperament, however, rewards perceptions of unbiased transparency.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

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

Speak with caution. Even if someone forgives harsh words you've spoken, they may be too hurt to ever forget them. Don't leave a legacy of pain and regret of things you never should have said.

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.

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

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.

Telling the truth is less demanding than telling a lie.

The unwholesome may be otherwise, but the Whole is ever holy.

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

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

Don't spend your life wondering "what if" and worrying over something you have no control. What's done is done. Looking backwards will cause you to miss out on new blessings ahead. Move on.

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

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.

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

In war, the first casualty is truth.

Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth, your attitude and your day. Don’t give anyone that much power over your life.

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 Great Ancient Vedic Philosophies I Have Been Hearing From The Very Beginning Of My Conception In My Mother Womb Till The Day I Was Born And Forever. I Used Them All To Materialize Many Of My Dreams And Practice Mysticism Coupled With Spiritualism To Keep My Self Secured And Keep Cool Depending On God.

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

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.

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.

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 liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie” (Ethics, p.67).

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.

Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.

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