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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. -- Anita Brookner
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. -- H. L. Mencken
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
When in doubt tell the truth. -- Mark Twain
Truth disappears with the telling of it. -- Lawrence Durrell
If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory. -- Jesse Ventura
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory! -- Mark Twain
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. -- Mark Twain
Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said. -- Mark Twain
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. -- Spencer Johnson
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. -- Oscar Wilde
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf
Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile. -- Paulo Coelho
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. -- James E. Faust
If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. If you lie, it becomes a part of your future. -- John Spence
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. -- William Blake
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better. -- Swami Vivekananda
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. -- William Faulkner
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool. -- Plato
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the cook deals with meat and vegetables. -- Eric Hoffer
Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things. -- Bernard Sahlins
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God. -- Ramakrishna
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? -- Anthony Hope
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. -- Josefina Vazquez Mota
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth. -- Eric Carr
I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth. -- Tayari Jones
I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I? -- David Tang
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being. -- Mark Ruffalo
There's a part in a woman's soul, God has given it to every woman, and it's the part where you know whether he's telling the truth or not. Women see red flags. -- Jessica White
In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way. -- June Jordan
You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest. -- Randy Pausch
The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way. -- Newt Gingrich
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. -- Michael Musto
I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge. -- Sammy Hagar
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. -- Doris Lessing
The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution. -- Jose Ramos-Horta
I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts. -- Steve Harvey
What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me. -- Jane Wiedlin
Telling the truth is always revolutionary -- Antonio Gramsci
Telling the truth is absolutely important. -- Jonathan Karl
Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me. -- Mason Cooley
I believe in telling the truth. -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Good writing is about telling the truth. -- Anne Lamott
Playing guitar is like telling the truth. -- B. B. King
Stop telling the truth about my record! -- Bob Dole
Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth. -- Joan of Arc
Telling the truth can be a dirty job. -- Francesca Marciano
You can't stay well without telling--and living--the truth. -- Martha Beck
telling the truth about children's lives is radical. -- Lucille Clifton
I'm appealing to voters by actually telling the truth. -- Kesha Rogers
Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Faith is acting like God is telling the truth. -- Tony Evans
The secret of good writing is telling the truth. -- Gordon Lish
Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth. -- Isabella Stewart Gardner
The young are not afraid of telling the truth. -- Anne Frank
Outing is a nasty word for telling the truth. -- Armistead Maupin
Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth. -- Bob Arum
Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world. -- George Bernard Shaw
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth. -- Yann Martel
I only believe in telling the truth and being truthful. -- Vinnie Tortorich
Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level. -- Parker J. Palmer
A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth. -- Michael Kinsley
Sometimes you know when someone is telling you the truth. -- Todd Strasser
I never saw any good that came of telling truth. -- John Dryden
All we can do is go around telling the truth. -- Carson McCullers
Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm. -- George Bernard Shaw
Telling the truth after proper investigation is the height of courage. -- Wafa Sultan
Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. -- June Jordan
Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again -- Christopher Dodd
All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth. -- George Orwell
No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth. -- Sara Shepard
Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. -- Pietro Aretino
Telling the truth without sensitivity can be a form of abuse. -- Frank Hall
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously. -- Thomas Sowell
In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies. -- Lauren Groff
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. -- Peter Matthiessen
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. -- Philip Guedalla
When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out! -- Agatha Christie
Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt -- Christian Boltanski
Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about. -- Johann Lamont
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I will never apologize to the Jewish community for telling the truth -- Louis Farrakhan
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across. -- James L. Barksdale
I learned that telling the truth was a big part of loving yourself. -- Iyanla Vanzant
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth. -- Paul Auster
I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across. -- James L. Barksdale
A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it. -- Nadeem Aslam
One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth. -- Lionel Strachey
The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie. -- Robert Breault
I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth. -- Otto von Bismarck
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. -- Thomas Sowell
Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth. -- Ken Blanchard
My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain. -- Laura Riding
I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism. -- Brittany Murphy
Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly. -- Glen Duncan
It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves. -- Lauryn Hill
I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth. -- Jesse Ventura
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological. -- Robert Breault
There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth. -- Curt Flood
Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It's hard enough to communicate when you're telling the truth. -- Karen Marie Moning
If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth. -- Aniekee Tochukwu
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. -- Malcolm Bradbury
There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear. -- Simon Sinek
Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth. -- Eva LaRue
I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language. -- Richard Peck
I love that Jesus showed He cared while at the same time telling the truth. -- Sho Baraka

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