Portuguese Proverb Quotes

He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.

We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.

The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

Truth is often attended with danger

I always believe in truth. Sometimes I know truth others don't. That puts me in a little bit of jeopardy sometimes.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.

Speak nothing but the truth, and you'll soon be considered dangerous.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.

We must say something, even when we know nothing.

I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.