Top 25 Telling The Truth Quotes of 349

Therefore, faithful Christian, seek the truth, listen to the truth, learn the truth, love the truth, tell the truth, learn the truth, defend the truth even to death.

Jan Hus

Christian, Faithful, Telling The Truth

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Howard Zinn

Revolutionary, Telling The Truth, Truth Be Told

Howard Zinn (1999). “Marx in Soho: A Play on History”, p.4, South End Press

The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us.

Miriam Makeba

Writing, People, Telling The Truth

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Albert Camus

Lying, Fiction, Telling The Truth

Telling the truth is always revolutionary

Antonio Gramsci

Revolutionary, Telling The Truth, Truth Is

I tell the truth through music. Other people tend to catch on and agree with my truth and it turns out we are all really similar.

SZA

People, Telling The Truth, Turns

The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.

Chris Hedges

Passion, Media Control, Telling The Truth

Chris Hedges, Laila Al-Arian (2013). “Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians”, p.18, Nation Books

When you sing, always tell the truth.

Billie Holiday

Music, Jazz, Telling The Truth

If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory

Judy Sheindlin

Memories, Good Memories, Telling The Truth

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Philip Roth

Love You, Telling The Truth, Force

"Portnoy's Complaint". Book by Philip Roth, January 12, 1969.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

Christian Boltanski

Art, Art Making, Telling The Truth

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

June Jordan

Political, Brilliant, Telling The Truth

Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom have a vested interest in [him] and who are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him.

Lerone Bennett, Jr.

Church, Telling The Truth, Priests

A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

Neville Cardus

Telling The Truth, Should, Cricket Funny

Neville Cardus (1930). “Cricket”

The writer's job is to tell the truth.

Ernest Hemingway

Jobs, Telling The Truth

Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom, Ernest Hemingway (2009). “Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms”, p.16, Infobase Publishing