Alfred Adler Quotes

Truth is often attended with danger

A little lie is like a little pregnancy – it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Lying was a way of life. The solution to the problem is ultrasimple: tell the truth, no matter how painful.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

That's one of the main things I've learned: honesty is paramount. The biggest thing I try and instil in my daughter. My deepest regrets have been to do with times that I've been dishonest. There's nothing worse than getting caught out in a lie. It's excruciatingly embarrassing.

It doesn't benefit me to lie to people. They're eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That's the problem with liberalism and socialism, by the way: it has to be propped up by lies.

A lot of people are afraid to lie to me.

You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.

No lie can live forever.

I'd rather deal with the consequences of the truth rather than the benefits of a lie.

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!