Truth Quotes - Page 36

Being dishonest to himself is the biggest crime any human can make

If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a dictator and you telling what you think, feel, and what you want or don’t want, is just called being honest. It doesn't control him at all. You’re trying to control others by withholding information by not getting involved and by not being honest. Withholding information is a form of manipulation. It is dishonest and it’s destructive to a relationship.

Stefan Molyneux

No matter how many lies you use to disguise it or how many excuses you bury it beneath, the truth will never cease to be true.

Richelle E. Goodrich

I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.

Roberto Bolaño

I have learned that if you fake your life it will kill you slowly, terribly and cause the most pain for everyone. You try to do the right thing, not hurt anyone, conform to what love is supposed to be and what it is supposed to look like, but in the end it destroys you. It eats away at your heart and soul like acid. You slowly destroy those around you that you say you love, and you slowly destroy yourself.

Mark D'Arbanville

True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light.

Shannon L. Alder

People forget that there's two sides to every story. Of course somebody is going to tell the side of it that makes them look good and exaggerate the rest to make everyone else look bad.

David Reeves

Complete honesty is not the same thing as full disclosure.

Ron Brackin

Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in the lunatic. He is the one least concerned of what I think of him, the mark of an honest man. I can always depend on him to be completely honest in what he thinks and feels, about anything, no matter the consequences laid before him, however with no course of rationale, I cannot necessarily take his word for even the well-being of him in his own reality.

Criss Jami

I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

Tennessee Williams

Life's to short to spend it fighting when you could be holding the one you love. And love's to rare to squnder it with petty concerns." The Apolloite groom to Rafael

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Better by far to live in the truth and know it, however bad it may be, than hide yourself away behind ignorance and habit.

Owen Sheers

There’s nothing more powerful in “Your Moment of Truth” than people owning their truth, their part in a situation.

Lou Bergholz

Being loved means; are disagreements welcome in my relationships? If you cant disagree with someone then you live in a tyranny and if you live in a tyranny then you are only loved to the degree that you erase yourself and conform to the irrational expectations of bullies. That isn't love obviously. Now if somebody in you life demands that you not disagree with them and gets angry, "offended", or outraged should you disagree with them then, that person is not a good person. It's pretty narcissistic. It's somebody who does not have the maturity, wisdom, and ego strength to handle, and in fact welcome disagreements. When people disagree with me as a whole I think it's a great opportunity for learning. People don't want to expose topics that might cause disagreement because, if the disagreement is punished then the illusion of being loved by good people is shattered.

Stefan Molyneux

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.

Criss Jami

When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.

G.K. Chesterton

For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history that it can occur at night in darkened rooms where small children sleep. However, surely not in academia. Surely lying and deception do not occur among people who go to conferences, who write books, who testify in court, and who have PhDs.At one point I complained to a Florida judge that I was astonished to an expert witness lying on the stand [about child sexual abuse research]. I thought one had to tell the truth in court. I thought if someone didn't, she didn't get her milk and cookies. I thought God came down and plucked someone right out of the witness stand if he lied in court. I thought a lying expert witness would step out of court and get hit by a bus. A wiser woman than I, the judge's answer was, “Silly you."Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Learned Author: Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998

Anna C. Salter

Presidents lie all the time. Really great presidents lie. Abraham Lincoln managed to end slavery in America partially by deception. (In an 1858 debate, he flatly insisted that he had no intention of abolishing slavery in states where it was already legal — he had to say this in order to slow the tide of secession.) Franklin Roosevelt lied about the U.S. position of neutrality until we entered World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor. (Though the public and Congress believed his public pledge of impartiality, he was already working in secret with Winston Churchill and selling arms to France.) Ronald Reagan lied about Iran-Contra so much that it now seems like he was honestly confused. Politically, the practice of lying is essential. By the time the Lewinsky story broke, Clinton had already lied about many, many things. (He’d openly lied about his level of commitment to gay rights during the ’92 campaign.) The presidency is not a job for an honest man. It’s way too complex. If honesty drove the electoral process, Jimmy Carter would have served two terms and the 2008 presidential race would have been a dead heat between Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich.

Chuck Klosterman

There is a difference between speaking the truth in love and judging someone hypocritically...make sure you know the difference before you speak!

Pauline Seaport

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends

Alexis de Tocqueville

From what I've witness, honesty didn't really make anyone happy. The truth was a punch to the gut, and while you were falling, a knee to the face, then you could lie on the floor and bleed for a spell.

Tanya Thompson

They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms” (Casanova, p.34, Vol 1 Preface).

Giacomo Casanova

Face the truth about what is standing in the way of your intention.

-Shandel Slaten

I'll only tell you what matters. And, the truth is, everything matters.

Crystal Woods

Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment we introduced ourselves?

Catherine Doyle

An honest man speaks truth, don't expect him to speak sweet.

Amit Kalantri

How often do we listen and act to the call of honesty, serenity, humility and generosity?How many "soft pillows" do we use for a life time?If only everyone uses a "soft pillow," then what a better world it could be to have many genuine hearts.

Angelica Hopes

I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman… did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

Jessica Lynch

A make believe life doesn't win friends and influence people. It bores the crap out of those living the dream.

Melody Carstairs

But may the truth be told. May the true self may be found. May the truth rule the world more than ever. How easy life will be if everyone is just true to themselves, true to their words, true to their actions and true to life?

Diana Rose Morcilla

From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.

Thiruvalluvar

Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is So. Non-Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is Not So.

Donald L. Hicks

Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Honesty is the only trick to not trick anyone.

Shawn Lukas

Honesty has a power that very few people can handle

Steven Aitchison

The truth is never dressed for the occasion.

Steve Maraboli

That's the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing.

James Clavell

I will blame no enemy that is a good man, nor yet praise a friend that is bad

Theognis

Never hesitate to tell the truth as you see it.

Marty Rubin

Clare's been called a lot of things- smart and funny, driven and talented- but memorable certainly isn't one of them. The most important things about her- the ones she's most proud of- are apparent only once you get to know her.

Jennifer E. Smith

Adopting the language of a pretense only serves to ease participation in it.

Bartok

How often in our lives have we withheld the truth from someone we’re supposed to love? We justify it by telling ourselves we’re doing them some kindness, when in reality, we’re just being selfish. We don’t want them to know the truth because if they did, well, they might not love us anymore. How many of us have ever felt that no one would love us if they knew the real us? Love bears all things, the Bible tells us. The truth is, everyone who really loves you can bear the real you.

Erin O'Riordan

One of the secrets a nation can unlock to have material wealth is, having a leader who will take an uncompromising stand to establish truth and honesty as a rule of building the nation

Sunday Adelaja

Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you.

Marissa Meyer

From what I’d witnessed, honesty didn’t really make anyone happy. The truth was a punch to the gut, and while you were falling, a knee to the face, then you could lie on the floor and bleed for a spell.

Tanya Thompson

Lies can't grow. Once plucked they can only wither. But every truth, once planted, grows into a tall, noble tree.

Stefan Emunds

Nations, like men, are wary of truth, for truth is too often not beautiful.

Addison Gayle Jr.

I think I sense a tone of honesty, if honesty exists in this world.

Emilyann Girdner

There is a possibility of economic growth through honesty and truth.

Sunday Adelaja

One of the greatest indicators of how much truth and honesty is in a country, is easily seen by observing how people drive around the city. What is their attitude to the rules of road safety? What is their attitude towards other commuters? Do they try to beat the system by all means? Do they try to get their way by hook or by crook, or they follow the rules? That is also part of corruption!

Sunday Adelaja

Economic and financial conversion is actually attainable, thanks to this principle of truth and honesty.

Sunday Adelaja

I believe that without strict enforcement of penalties for any offence violating the principles of truth and honesty, Nigeria and Africa will not be able to move from our present state of underdevelopment into civilization.

Sunday Adelaja

True development only comes when the principles of truth and honesty have been successfully transmitted into the daily and everyday lifestyle of the people.

Sunday Adelaja

The key challenge facing us today is to successfully transmit into daily and everyday lifestyle the principle of truth and honesty.

Sunday Adelaja

If you see any country that is advanced and developed today, it is because that society is fundamentally based on principles of truth and honesty.

Sunday Adelaja

Truth is a fundamental principle that is needed for any form of building or construction. So also is honesty.

Sunday Adelaja

Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into ‘true’ and ‘false’, but instead could be ‘things that people needed to know at the moment’ and ‘things that they didn’t need to know at the moment’.

Terry Pratchett

Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

Anthon St. Maarten

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