personal development on Telling the Truth

As my AA, NA, and CA friends have repeatedly reminded me, rigorous honesty is the first rule of recovery.

If you’ve ever watched a war movie, or a film that takes place in the military, you’re likely to have encountered a specific scene, in which a subordinate will have something to tell a senior officer ...

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Tell all the truth, but tell it slant. . . . The truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind.

“What is real?” “What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day . . . “Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you . . .” “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes...

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Tell the truth and write about freedom and fight for it, however you can, and you will be richly rewarded.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

The church must suffer for speaking the truth, for pointing out sin, for uprooting sin. No one wants to have a sore spot touched, and therefore a society with so many sores twitches when someone has t...

Who will tell you the truth? An enemy who hates you bitterly, and a friend who loves you dearly.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.