Truth Telling Quotes

To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

When in doubt, tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

The way to get people's votes is to say that all their problems are caused by other people, and that you will stop those other people from giving them trouble. But if you really want to help, then you can tell them the truth and risk losing their votes.

There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement.

There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

It is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it.

An untruth must be spoken, where need requires. For whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object. Men lie, because they think to gain by deceiving others; and speak the truth, because they expect to get something by their true speaking, and to be trusted afterwards in more important matters. Thus, though their conduct is so opposite, the end of both is alike. If there were no gain to be got, your true-speaking man would tell untruths as much as your liar, and your liar would tell the truth as much as your true-speaking man.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.

I was in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. I've argued for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United Farm Workers. I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck. But I got into this to tell the truth as I saw it.

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

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

If you want to make a Conservative angry, tell him a lie. If you want to make a Liberal angry, tell him the truth.

Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

Expressing truth is hard work.

Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.