“If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell.”
Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
Telling the Truth (1977)
“1092. Children and Fools tell Truth.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734Related quotes
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“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Falsehood, iii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIX - Truth and Convenience
“They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and children. Guess which one I am.”
Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
“Children and fooles cannot lye.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Children and fooles cannot lye.
Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba
Camp Columbia, Havana (Jan. 8th, 1959), Fidel Castro Reader, pp. 133