Honest Speech Quotes

I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

Expressing truth is hard work.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

Say things to the world that are true.

From a young age I've always known my game pretty well and coming from a club like Yorkshire you are generally taught to say what you think. If you don't say what you think then someone else does.

It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

We need true free thinkers, people who really say what they feel and have good, genuine intentions.

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

Truth doesn't have to be liked. It only has to be spoken. Speak it out. The truth may hurt you, but it will set you free.

Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.

Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence of common life. It has a passion for truth and justice and liberty; it is a buoy to people in ordinary trouble: to a friend whose life has gone skidding into the meridian, who has been struck by bad news, who is frying eggs and hash browns and has whiny child clinging to his pant leg.

I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.

Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.

I want a language that speaks the truth.

Some people say things they think you want to hear, and some people say the things they are actually thinking.

Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.

I talk the truth. I don't trash talk, I just talk the truth.

The risk of insult is the price of clarity. To be clearly understood one must speak the simple, essential truth as plainly as he is able.

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.