Tell Quotes

"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Not nail a great star to its track, . . . Tell when to go and when come back;. . . But open up thy heart to know What rainbows teach and sunsets show."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe."
-Mark Twain

"The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop."
-Mark Twain

"Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it...."
-Mark Twain

"Carlyle said, 'A lie cannot live'; it shows he did not know how to tell them."
-Mark Twain

"When in doubt, tell the truth."
-Mark Twain

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
-Mark Twain

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
-Plato

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
-George Orwell

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
-George Orwell

"It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people."
-Nikki Giovanni

"You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"History, sir, will tell lies, as usual."
-George Bernard Shaw

"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world."
-George Bernard Shaw

"You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!"
-John Lennon

"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
-Oscar Wilde

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
-Oscar Wilde

"The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend."
-Chuck Palahniuk

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

"This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody."
-Rita Mae Brown

"Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? -- John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963."
-John F. Kennedy