176 Quotes About Telling-the-truth

Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.

The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.

How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have to be killed before you summon the courage to tell the truth to the American people?

All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

Seek the truth. Tell the truth. Live in truth.