Jordan Peterson Quotes

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

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

Lying is the greatest of all sins.

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

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

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

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatsoever. But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

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.

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

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

Don't lie if you don't have to.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

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

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

Let him say what is true, let him say what is pleasing, let him utter no disagreeable truth, and let him utter no agreeable falsehood; that is the eternal law.