Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

Usually we are saying only part of the truth.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

I cannot flinch from saying such things in public. As a Representative of the People I am duty bound to do so. Justice cries out to me not to dissemble.

I think there's probably a perception that I did try to mislead people, that I tried to not be forthright about everything I knew about Zach Smith, Courtney Smith situation, which was not the case at all.

I leave a lot out when I tell the truth

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.

We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.

We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

I have never lied to you, I have always told you some version of the truth.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.

This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.

People are always afraid of the truth.

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.