Quotes About Truth

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Tell the truth because then you don't have to have a good memory.

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.

I'd rather tell you how I really feel.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.

I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.

You can never maintain a friendship if you don't tell the truth, even if it hurts.

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.

Everybody is always like, 'You must be a really good liar,' and no, I'm actually a truth teller, and I'm telling someone else's truth. If I'm lying, then I'm not doing my job correctly.

Trust the tale, not the teller.

What I loved about playing Ms. Albright in 'Love, Simon' is that, so often, when we speak of allies in the queer community, we don't really get to see what it means be an active ally. I love that she can step into this world with these kids and be a truth teller.

I'm not a liar; I'm a truth teller.

I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and processor of press releases - was, in the world of letters I grew up in, a lower-down job. To be a writer - once the ambition of every journalist - was to be the greater truth teller.

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

I've always been a fan of telling honest stories.

Spreading the positivity is just as important as telling the difficult stories.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.

If I'm really telling someone what's coming ahead of them, then I'm going to say it, and I'm going to own those words.

Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.