42 Quotes About Telling the Truth

• Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile. – Paolo Coelho

 

• Telling someone the truth is a loving act. – Mal Pancoast

 

• Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. – Mark Twain

 

• When in doubt, tell the Truth. – Mark Twain

 

• The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. – Jim Davis

 

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

 

• Always tell the truth – it’s the easiest thing to remember. -David Mamet

 

• I don’t think there is anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable. – Craig Ferguson

 

• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. – Oscar Wilde

 

• If you wish to astonish the whole world, tell the simple truth. – Unknown

• If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell. – Unknown

 

• It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. – Henry Louis Mencken

 

• If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. – Mark Twain

 

• Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread. – Josh Billings

 

• I never lie because I don’t fear anyone. You only lie when you’re afraid. – John Gotti

 

• Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. – Abraham Lincoln

 

• Truth is such a rare thing, it is delighted to tell it. – Emily Dickinson

 

• I respect people that tell me the truth. No matter how hard it is. – Unknown

 

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

 

• A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. – William Blake

 

• Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. – Thomas Carlyle

 

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you. – Stephanie Klein

 

• It’s essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life’s pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected. – John Bradshaw

 

• Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment. – Unknown

 

• No legacy is so rich as Honesty. – William Shakespeare

 

• Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. – Slovenian Proverb

 

• Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological. – Robert Brault

 

• Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. – liver Wendell Holmes

 

• In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act. – George Orwell

 

• But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is to tell the truth. – Howard Zinn

 

• The truth needs so little rehearsal. – Barbara Kingsolver

 

• I would rather be blamed for telling the truth than freed for telling a lie. – Terry Mark

 

• Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth. – William Faulkner

 

• Before you tell something make sure you’re telling the whole truth not your version of the truth. Others may not know, but God does. – Unknown

 

• People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. – Richard J. Needham

 

• The only people mad at you for telling the truth are those living a lie. – Unknown

 

• When a woman tells the truth, she creates the possibility for more truth around her. – Adrienne Rich

 

• Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear. – Catherine Of Siena

 

• It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth. – Hussein Nishah

 

• Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. – Spencer Johnson

 

• Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. – James E. Faust

 

• It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one’s back, that are absolutely and entirely true. – Oscar Wilde

 

• The Five Levels of Truth-Telling: First, you tell the truth to yourself about yourself. Then you tell the truth to yourself about another. At the third level, you tell the truth about yourself to another. Then you tell your truth about another to that other. And finally, you tell the truth to everyone about everything. – Neale Donald Walsch