Speaking The Truth

Truth is stranger than fiction. - International Proverb

In Canada, things are very honest. - Jim Pattison

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. - Ovid

Fiction reveals the truth that reality obscures. - Jessamyn West

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith. - Tolstoy

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes. - Maimonides

Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend. - Jack McDevitt

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. - Agnes Repplier

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. - Aldous Huxley

The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie. - Unknown

If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out. - Rabindranath Tagore

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - Mark Twain

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

I live by the truth that "No" is a complete sentence. - Anne Lamott

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture. - Ravi Zacharias

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. - Greek Proverb

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Everyone makes mistakes, but only a person with integrity owns up to them. - Nicole Guillaume

Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday. - Zig Ziglar

Truth is the thread that separates true spirituality from false spirituality. - Ravi Zacharias

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. - C S Lewis

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. - Douglas Adams

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. - Virginia Woolf

Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity. - Jack Welch

I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian. - Peter O'Toole

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. - C S Lewis

I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me. - Sylvia Ashton Warner

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. - Oprah Winfrey

The truth is that whenever a fence is removed, it's wise to ask why it was put there in the first place. - Ravi Zacharias

The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it. - Samuel Pepys

The greatness of a man is not how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. - Bob Marley

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values. - Ralph Ellison

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant. - Washington Irving

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse. - Dorothy L Sayers