Speaking The Truth

Truth is a pathless land. - J Krishnamurti

Be prepared and be honest. - John Wooden

Justice is truth in action. - Benjamin Disraeli

Wisdom is found only in truth. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Integrity never goes out of style. - Jim George

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through. - George Eliot

Honesty if the first chapter in the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson

Shouting louder does not help if truth has been lost. - Ravi Zacharias

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

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

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay as long as truth. - Will Rogers

To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden. - James Herbert

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

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. - Oscar Wilde

Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. - Portuguese Proverb

Nothing better than listening to a lie when you already know the truth. - Unknown

We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth. - Seneca

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. - Chinua Achebe

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

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

Humour is based on a modicum of truth. Ever heard a joe-k about a father-in-law? - Dick Clark

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

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Winston Churchill

People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare. - Ted Allen

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. - John Hodgman

An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half. - Shailer Mathews

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

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling. - Robert M Pirsig

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels. - Sheila Ballantyne

Integrity will take a leader farther than any other quality. If you would travel far and do much as a leader, never compromise your integrity. - John C Maxwell

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

Jesus if You are the one who gives life as it is meant to be, I want it. Please get me out of this hospital bed well, and I promise I will leave no stone unturned in my pursuit of truth. - Ravi Zacharias

Here is life's essential purpose - to worship God in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). All other purposes are meant to be secondary. When they become primary, they destroy the individual. - Ravi Zacharias

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. - Leo Buscaglia

There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour. It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with. - James May