267 Quotes About Truth-telling

This is the problem,’ she says. ‘With us?’ ‘With everything. No one’s saying what they want.

She wished, just once, someone would show an interest in the same things she did

So what was it then exactly, this truth-telling? ... It was about being true to the very stuff of life, it was about trying to capture, though you never could, the very feel of being alive. It was about finding a language. And it was about being true to the fact, the one thing only followed from the other, that many things in life —of so many more than we think—can never be explained at all.

The truth shouldn’t be told only when it’s convenient. Honesty must be a way of life.

The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God which is the secret of religion- these are the two things that govern us.

Strange that in the day of tumult, it should be something so innocuous as a dribble of water that prompts a person to tears.

We have the right to our labor but not to the fruit of our labor.

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The truth is worth pursuing at any distance.