Speaking The Truth

Truth is a pathless land. - J Krishnamurti

When in doubt tell the truth. - Mark Twain

In Canada, things are very honest. - Jim Pattison

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. - Merry Browne

It is better to be quotable than to be honest. - Tom Stoppard

Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong. - William Thackeray

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. - Otto von Bismarck

The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it. - Stanley Kubrick

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. - Nadine Gordimer

Look a pig in its eyes, and understand the truth behind bacon. - Mango Wodzak

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. - John 8:32

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. - Flannery O'Connor

We arrive at the truth, not by reason only, but also by the heart. - Blaise Pascal

A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. - Russian Proverb

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin. - Barbara Kingsolver

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I'd be honest. - Rodney Dangerfield

Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action. - Charles William Eliot

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - Lily Tomlin

In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell

To be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. - William Shakespeare

The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth. - William Cowper

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. - Joseph Joubert

A good story is at its best when the line between truth and fiction remains ambiguous. - Leicester Hemingway

There's an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny. - Irving Berlin

Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again. - Hunter S. Thompson

Another good thing about telling the truth is that you don't have to remember what you said. - Unknown

A good lie will have traveled half way around the world while the truth is putting on her boots. - Mark Twain

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so. - Mark Twain

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. - John Keats

Personally this plan would cost me hundreds of millions of dollars, but in all honesty, it's worth it. - Donald Trump

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell me the truth - even if it costs him his job. - Samuel Goldwyn

Better to be on a seemingly endless journey seeking truth, than to be comfortable and stagnant with deception. - Starr De Luna

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth, even if it costs them their jobs. - Samuel Goldwyn

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth. - James Allen

It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence. - Federico Mayor

There is something about a martini,
Ere the dining and dancing begin;
And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth -
I think that perhaps it's the gin. - Ogden Nash

The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning. - Peter Høeg