Gene Wilder
Actor, comedian
"If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?"
Telling The Truth quotes
Telling The Truth
349 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Mother Angelica
Nun, Television Personality
"Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves."
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life"
Snoop Dogg
Rapper, Actor
"I tell the truth. And I know what I'm talking about. That's why I'm a threat."
Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth."
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"When you sing, always tell the truth."
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"Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth."
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"You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you."
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"The writer's job is to tell the truth."
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"The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth."
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"When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends."
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"When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her."
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"One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God."
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"The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark."
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"I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier."
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"When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better."
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"Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy."
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"In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way."
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"To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world."
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"He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood."
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"The young are not afraid of telling the truth."
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"My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth."
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"Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm."
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"Tell the truth and make it rhyme"
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"I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer."
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