Telling The Truth Quotations | Page 3

It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.

It's not a matter of us standing outside it and ticking off the boxes: yes, the Bible is faithful here; yes, it's telling the truth there, and so on, but rather granted that it's God-given. It's the frame of reference that shows us how to live in, tells us how to think about everything.

Always tell the truth and be true.

Sometimes you tell the truth like you're pulling taffy.

I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.