Browsing Topic Best Speak The Truth Quotes

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.

Be brave and upright that God may love thee; speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death; safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath.

Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.

Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb.

Love me or hate me, I always speak the truth.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

Honor to those who in the life they leaddefine and guard a Thermopylae.Never betraying what is right,consistent and just in all they dobut showing pity also, and compassion;generous when they are rich, and when they are poor,still generous in small ways,still helping as much as they can;always speaking the truth,yet without hating those who lie. And even more honor is due to themwhen they foresee (as many do foresee)that in the end Ephialtis will make his appearance,that the Medes will break through after all.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth.

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

I’ve always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that’s what we’re supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

I think Michael Moore is an amazing man – an amazing, brave man. And I think people are probably going to start saying, ‘Don’t associate with Cindy Sheehan.’ People who speak truth to power somehow are marginalized in this country.

With few words, one can speak the truth.

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.

A radical is one who speaks the truth.

Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age

When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he – That when they speak truth they are not believed.

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

I’m going to speak the truth when I’m asked about it. This isn’t for look. This isn’t for publicity or anything like that. This is for people that don’t have the voice.

As far as I’m concerned, I just speak the truth.

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.

I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasn’t working for me when it wasn’t working. The world doesn’t come crashing down when you speak the truth.

I try to, in my own fallible way, speak the truth.

To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative gifts that the Creator has given you.

When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out.

I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.

It’s become my brand in a way you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.