Truthtelling Quotes

When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public.

I'm not one for lying to children.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

The sad truth is the truth is sad.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.

Always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

Stories don’t always have happy endings.

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

I am honest; I speak the truth, and I sometimes probably go overboard and speak my mind.

Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

Report me and my cause aright.

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young.

When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear.

I've never understood this idea of not shooting straight with people.