Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

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

The only kind of statement worth making is an overstatement.

Stick to the truth, avoid exaggeration.

People who are deceptive themselves have a really good ear for deception. They know when somebody's telling the truth or not, and so one of the ways around that is to always be telling the truth - or some version of it.

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.

Study after study shows that people are much less likely to lie to a person they consider to be honest.

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.

I don't lie to you," Alan said. "I lie WITH you." Sin stopped looking up at him from under her eyelashes and burst out laughing. Alan went red. "So I've just realized how that come out. Uh.

The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody.

Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.

It is very difficult to tell the truth.

Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.

Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.

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

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.'

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.

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.