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But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.
Sep 18, 2025
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about hearing the truth said. There is something so intimate about sharing the truth, even if you are not entirely sure what it means.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.
Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.
History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.
The truth is more important than the facts.
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
When in doubt tell the truth.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.
Personally, I never believe an artist saying "I do it for myself" is saying the truth, because why would you go through the trouble of making something that goes out into the world if you didn't care about somebody else seeing it? It's like the difference between those who choose "more comfortably termed entertainment" versus what people think of as the "art life," which is supposedly more monastic or spiritual. I don't believe in those distinctions.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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