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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth. — Rabindranath Tagore

Shaquille O'Neal has always been one to speak the truth. — Shaquille O'Neal

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended. — Edward Abbey

To speak the truth is easy and pleasant. — Mikhail Bulgakov

Women like this exploited a person's natural civility, marching through the gaps left by a inability to speak the naked truth. — Rebecca Tope

To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many. — John Lancaster Spalding

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. — Vincent D'Onofrio

Speak ill of yourself when by yourself; then you will become accustomed both to speak and to hear the truth. — Seneca.

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it. — Boris Pasternak

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled. — Jodi Picoult

In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth. — Michael Leunig

I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it. — Armistead Maupin

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'd be lying if I said
you make me speechless
the truth is you make my
tongue so weak it forgets
what language to speak in. — Rupi Kaur

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care. — Bikram Choudhury

We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us. — Margaret Guenther

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth — Rudyard Kipling

To utter a word? no that will only heavy the air you breath, for your eyes speak more then your pretty mouth — William Brade

If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power. — Warren G. Bennis

Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter. — Lysa TerKeurst

He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth. — Anthony Trollope

First I anger Edmure, and now Robb, but all I have done is speak the truth. Are men so fragile they cannot bear to hear it? — George R R Martin

The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right. — Potter Stewart

It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will? — Edward Abbey

You're a quiet one. You keep to yourself, but when you speak up, you tell the truth: in your music and every other way. — Cinda Williams Chima

To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand. — Shannon L. Alder

Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story. — Max Ehrmann

They take to the gallows those who speak the truth — Parinoush Saniee

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse. — Oscar Wilde

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. — Noam Chomsky

I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it. — Jaggi Vasudev

Political correctness jeopardizes more than it should the human capacity to speak the truth, — Karl Barth

When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my own. — Bret Harte

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit. — John Bunyan

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge. — Michel Foucault

I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll! — Lil' Wayne

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out. — Bev Perdue

The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness
And time to speak it in. You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster. — William Shakespeare

It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth! — Agatha Christie

Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think. — Paloma Faith

Truth doesn't have to be liked. It only has to be spoken. Speak it out. The truth may hurt you, but it will set you free. — Amish Tripathi

Before you assume...read all the facts. Before you judge...try to understand why and most important
before you speak...always think. — Timothy Pina

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them. — Jack Kornfield

The soul-Self doesn't follow the crowd. It encourages you to speak up when you need to and live by your truth. — Debra Moffitt

To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
in keeping with its nature. — Heraclitus

The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith. — Elisabeth Elliot

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. — Common

Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs. — Kenneth H. Blanchard

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable. — Sophocles

It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce. — Saint Francis De Sales

A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking. — Saul Bellow

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power. — Craig Newmark

The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power. — Salman Rushdie

What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess. — Samuel Beckett

Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that. — Nathan Lane

Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence. — Robert Muller

We must speak the truth if we are to be a great nation — Imran Khan

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion - ie., none to speak of — Robert A. Heinlein

Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think. — Gautama Buddha

In the adversarial system, it's more important to follow legal procedure than to speak the truth. — Jon Krakauer

We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States. — Julian McMahon

We are not in a mincing lady's boudoir; we are, as it were, two abstract beings in a balloon, who have met in order to speak out the truth. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The problem isn't that they all speak bad about me. The problem is that they all feel comfortable speaking bad about me to you. — Monika Ramzy

My admiration stranger within our gates, who hesitates not to speak the truth. — George S. Clason

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today. — Bruce Lee

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances — Xenophanes

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

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth. — Henry David Thoreau

...too often it's only children and old people who speak the truth. You just have to slow down and listen. — Eve Chase

Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods. — Gautama Buddha

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell. — William Penn

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth. — Ted Nugent

He said you were very dangerous."
"No more dangerous than anyone else who dares to speak the truth. — Jasper Fforde

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth. — E. M. Forster

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it. — Robin Hobb

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth — Cornel West

We all want to hear the truth, but we also a Speak that Always? — Jan Jansen

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear. — Henry David Thoreau

The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth. — Samuel Johnson

It is not our job to defeat those we disagree with. Instead, we are to speak the truth in love with respect, honor, and compassion for the listener — Dave Burchett

Today I speak the truth as I know it to be, tomorrow I may know better. — T Jay Taylor

I willingly accept Cassandra's fate
To speak the truth, although believed too late. — Anne Killigrew

No man ought to write at all, or even to speak at all, unless he thinks that he is in truth and the other man in error. — G.K. Chesterton

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. — Confucius

People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you've gotta learn to stand up to them, so don't be offended if I say something you don't like. — Eminem

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers. — Ron Silver

To love what we say, it must be true. To want to speak the truth, it must be loved. — Fulton J. Sheen

Words matter. Artists love to trot out the tired line, "My work speaks for itself," but the truth is, our work doesn't speak for itself. — Austin Kleon

Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double. — Christina Stead

It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all. — Karen Marie Moning

The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth. — Walter Raleigh

There comes a time to speak your truth and the time is now — Renae A. Sauter

Let me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to do anything that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit. — William Shakespeare

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it. — Audre Lorde

but on Barsoom no man lies; if he does not wish to speak the truth he is silent. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Only after giving up 'the truth' can we learn to speak our truth. — Terrence Real

It is not what we say to each other every day that establishes all the meaning and beauty and truth, it is everything we think before we speak — Tor Norretranders

When governments murder those who speak the truth, it is time to get new governments. — Diane Duane

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak? — Carl Sagan