No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

To tell the truth is useful to those to whom it is spoken, but disadvantageous to those who tell it, because it makes them disliked.

Some jokes are less agreeable than others

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

You want the truth? You can't handle the truth

You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand.

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty

And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.

EVEN WHEN THE TRUTH ISN’T HOPEFUL, THE TELLING OF IT IS.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.