Truth Telling Quotes: When you tell the truth, you don’t have to be afraid of anyone. It takes courage to speak the truth. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth against injustice, lies. If people all over the world do this, the earth will change automatically.
Here are some inspiring truth telling quotes that will help you to gather the courage, to be honest, and tell the truth.
Meaning, Definition, Importance of truth-telling
“Truth-telling or honesty is seen as a basic moral principle, rule, or value. Withholding information or otherwise deceiving the patient would seem to at least disrespect patient autonomy and potentially harm the patient.” ― medicine.missouri.edu
“Truth-telling in medical ethics involves the moral duty, to be honest with patients about conditions, medications, procedures, and risks, and this can often be unpleasant, but it is generally necessary. As recently as the 1960s, most physicians believed that patients would rather be lied to than told a horrible truth.” ― study.com
“Truth-telling makes possible freedom and trust between people, and, in the life of faith, it makes possible closeness to God.” ― mcall.com
Truth Telling Quotes, to be honest
Here is the truth telling quotes that will help you to know the power of truth-telling.
1. “Truth never damages a cause that is just.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
2. “Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
3. “Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.” ― Howard Zinn
4. “It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.” ― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid
5. “The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.” ― Kurt Cobain
6. “If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
7. “Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth-telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.” ― James E. Faust
8. “Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” ― Spencer Johnson
9. “Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.” ― Warren Wiersbe
10. “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.” ― William Faulkner
11. “Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.” ― John F. Kennedy
12. “Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” ― Franz Kafka
Power of truth-telling quotes
13. “Truth is only harsh if you’re unable to face it.” ― Stewart Stafford
14. “Everybody doesn’t need to know everything about you.” ― Germany Kent
15. “Truth is an ideal we aspire to. Fact is an agreement on the general consensus of what truth is. Honesty is a personal truth shared.” ― Stewart Stafford
16. “An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back the truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.” ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
17. “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” ― Galileo Galilei
18. “The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.” ― Susan Sontag, The Benefactor
19. “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. “One word of truth outweighs the world.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
20. “Truth is hard, propaganda is cheap.” ― DaShanne Stokes
21. “If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.” ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
22. “Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.” ― Joseph Campbell
23. “Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.” ― St. Catherine of Siena
Famous Quotes about truth-telling
24. “Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.” ― Robert Brault
25. “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better.” ― Anne Lamott
26. “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” ― Germany Kent
27. “To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.” ― Germany Kent
28. “You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.” ― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
29. “I don’t like any shows very much, if you want to know the truth.” ― J.D. Salinger
30. “If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak a thousand truths before you lie.” ― Amit Kalantri
31. “No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.” ― Barbara Ehrenreich
32. “Sometimes, truth causes pain and suffering. At such times, silence is preferred. In fact, there may be times when a white lie, could actually lead to a good outcome.” ― Amish Tripathi
33. “Never underestimate the fact that loving others is a choice but loving yourself is a responsibility. ” ― Germany Kent
34. “Truth is much like fire. Hard to understand, ever-changing.” ― Will Bly, Ravens in the Sky
35. “The truth is worth pursuing at any distance.” ― Kenneth Eade, Beyond All Recognition
Quotes to gather courage for truth telling
36. “Sometimes hearing the truth takes more courage than speaking the truth.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
37. “Truth is not determined by the number of people telling it or willing to admit to it.” ― DaShanne Stokes
38. “You’ll see some bad things, but if you didn’t see them, they’d still be happening.” ― Paula Fox, The Slave Dancer
39. “Thinking about the past or future, just steals the present from us.” ― Dr. Ashok Anand
40. “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
41. “The truth is we don’t know the truth. We just live and learn how to tell the truth because we were born liars.” ― Auliq Ice
42. “The one who most seems like a liar is the one who tells a bold-face truth.” ― Runa Pigden
43. “A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.” ― Beth Nimmo
44. “If you tell me the truth, the truth I’ll proclaim. If you tell me a lie, you’ll be fair game.” ― Belva Rae Staples
45. “Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.” ― DaShanne Stokes
46. “The problem with people who are self-centered is that they never shift their focus long enough to understand or care about the needs of those around them.” ― Germany Kent
47. “Our biggest fear is not in expressing the truth but that we will be attacked or belittled because of our truth.” ― Kelli Wilson
Best Quotes about truth
48. “No one tells the truth to people they don’t actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.” ― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
49. “Once you reject fear, you will become the perfect candidate to receive and reflect Truth.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun
50. “A human being who trades away individuality for conformity is nothing but a slave.” ― Auliq Ice
51. “Not everything needed to be brought into the light, he knew. Not every truth needed to be told.” ― Louise Penny, A Rule Against Murder
52. “Truth is told when it tells itself.” ― Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau
53. “Truth is like a bright full moon in a dark country sky. Powerful, bright, and undeniable. Lies are like clouds that continually try to cover that moon. Sometimes they might be able to cover the moon, but only temporarily. The truth will always outshine the clouds.” ― Alex Haditaghi
54. “The truth no matter how hard it is to bear, must be accepted and confronted head on because it is real. Businesses and people who accept truth soar.” ― Germany Kent
55. “Truth is only relative to those that ignore hard evidence.” ― A.E. Samaan
56. “If you want to know the truth about something, make Google your closest friend.” ― Olawale Daniel
Quotes about truth and honesty
57. “Telling the truth is less demanding than telling a lie.” ― Eraldo Banovac
58. “Don’t spend your life wondering “what if” and worrying over something you have no control over. What’s done is done. Looking backward will cause you to miss out on new blessings ahead. Move on.” ― Germany Kent
59. “I am free! for I have in me the strength of truth.” ― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
60. “Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth, your attitude, and your day. Don’t give anyone that much power over your life.” ― Germany Kent
61. “Speak with caution. Even if someone forgives harsh words you’ve spoken, they may be too hurt to ever forget them. Don’t leave a legacy of pain and regret of things you never should have said.” ― Germany Kent
62. “Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality.” ― Germany Kent
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