Speaking the Truth Quotes

If one is honest there is no need to remember.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.

I could have wished that the reputations of many brave men were not to be imperilled in the mouth of a single individual, to stand or fall according as he spoke well or ill. For it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth.

One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.

There is a political value in being honest and saying what you mean.

I have noticed that nothing that I never said ever did me any harm.

Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed.

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

Candor is the only way I know how to do it. I'm way too old to change. At the end of the day, I believe the truth is stronger than any lie that's out there.

Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

He speaks truly who speaks the shade.

When the truth offends no one it should come from our lips as naturally as the air we breathe.

I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so.

The truth is ever best.

The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.