Quotes About Truth

Three things that cannot be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

My father... had told me: Appearance is a distraction, surrendering it develops humility and truth in abundance.

I know propaganda when I see it, and I can speak with authority on it.

Facts do not speak.

When I speak, I speak facts, and if you're getting mad, it's because you know it's the truth.

Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won't forgive you if you lie.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

I speak the truth on what happened to me because it's happening to a lot of people that grow up in displaced and disadvantaged communities.

I don't speak out of place, but if you ask me, I will definitely speak the truth. Also, my opinion is my opinion. I don't feel the need to force anybody to agree or disagree with me. But if you ask me, I do feel it's important to speak with confidence about my feelings about whatever the questions are.

I always approach logic without emotion. The math always equals the math. Regardless of whether I discovered the math before anyone else, or I just decided to accept it, I know what logically makes sense, and I'm going to speak on it every time.

I'm not in the business of being 'friendly.' First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever. But I believe in facts.

In 1977, when I became Speaker, I started meeting with TV reporters each morning when I arrived at work. Later in the morning, I would hold a news conference before the House opened. I always told the truth and almost never answered with 'no comment.'

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth - they start to reject oppression.

I like to speak the truth. I know people dont like listening to the truth but I like speaking it.

I don't think I push boundaries. I find that other people feel that way. To me, it's just about going up there and speaking the truth, whatever that is.

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.

Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found it gratifying. It was a joy to have an opportunity to say what you believed. It's challenging to do it in fiction, but I liked writing the novels. I liked writing 'Democracy' particularly.