Sam Harris Quotes

It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.

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.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

I never really tell lies, and sometimes it has worked against me.

You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends

Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be honest with me. Please don't lie to me. Whatever the situation is, be honest with me.

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

I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.

Since when is anyone truly honest with anyone?

I never lie to my fans.

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.

I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.

He who is dishonest with respect to speech, is dishonest in everything.

There's freedom in being rigorously honest. I lied all my life.

We've all grown wary of being lied to online - let's face it, dudes are always exaggerating their heights - so trust is a hot commodity.

I don't like people lying; I like honesty.

Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won't forgive you if you lie.