Edward R. Murrow Quotes

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

If you are going to do something that you have to lie about, don't do it, it's very simple.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.

I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

I'm not a Saban guy, because I don't like liars, and I think he lied. I think he lied to the Miami Dolphins and to the fans of Miami, and he left. And it's pretty simple: I think integrity is very important; if you don't have integrity, I don't know how you can be successful.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

To be persuasive we must be believable. To be believable, we must be truthful.

I’ll lie as much as the next guy when my country’s interests are involved—if I have a chance of being believed..

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

If there is one thing that our role models in this election have taught us, it's that omitting important information is completely different from lying.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interest of the country.

That's the part I kept trying to say on Queen Radio: I don't have to believe you because you're saying it. I'm not saying you're a liar, I learned that long ago too. There's a big difference between you're a liar and I don't believe you.

If I utter one lie, I'll have to remember it the next time someone asks me about it. It's far simpler to state the truth.

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

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.