“Speaking the truth is better than speaking one's mind.”

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“It is better to speak the truth, and lose, than to win by lying.”

Bernardo Dovizi (1470–1520) Italian cardinal and playwright

Act I, scene II. — (Polinico).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 298.
La Calandria (c. 1507)

Michel De Montaigne photo

“I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Je ne dis les autres, sinon pour d'autant plus me dire.
Book I, Ch. 26
Essais (1595), Book I
Variant: I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Jordan Peterson photo

“Part of the Act of Faith is to affirm: There's no better way to bring a better Being into Being than to speak the Truth.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

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George Herbert photo

“763. Better speake truth rudely then lye covertly.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“To speak a truth that belongs to another is untruth, for speaking belongs to living, hence to speak another’s truth is to live a life that is not one’s own.”

David L. Norton (1930–1995) American philosopher

Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 8

Henry David Thoreau photo

“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Wednesday

Barry Sanders photo

“One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, 'Speak truth to power'. Power knows the truth. It's speaking the truth to yourself that's the challenge.”

Barry Sanders (1938) American academic, author

Oregon Live Saturday, April 16, 2011

Clarence Thomas photo

“I knew that until I was ready to tell the truth as I saw it, I was no better than a politician- but I didn't know whether I would ever be brave enough to break ranks and speak my mind.”

Clarence Thomas (1948) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Page 116
2000s, (2008)

François de La Rochefoucauld photo

“Everyone speaks well of his heart; no one dares speak well of his mind.”

François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Chacun dit du bien de son coeur et personne n'en ose dire de son esprit.
Maxim 98.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

Ursula K. Le Guin photo

“One voice, speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies, given time; plenty of time.”

Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle

Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 3 “The Mad King” (p. 27)

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