Leo Tolstoy Quotes

I'm not scared about saying what I think.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

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.

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

To be persuasive we must be believable. To be believable, we must be truthful.

It’s better to be quotable than to be honest.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.

Lying and art are very allied. But after you lie, you get to the truth.

You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art.

There's freedom in being rigorously honest. I lied all my life.

If you're going to be transparent, you're going to have to let the music come that wants to come.

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

The only thing I've ever regretted is not writing more; not being more honest; not saying how it really is in Baghdad. It's hard to get there sometimes.

Comedy is truth. We should not apologize for it.

"Keep it 100" means keeping it 100 percent real. It comes from the expression ... "keeping it real," which means you are being completely honest and 100 percent real means you are really being honest, which is kind of a contradiction of sorts. You're either being honest or you're not.

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I'm just trying to be free with my expression.

By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make—and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.