Orson Pratt Quotes

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

Donald Trump tweeted out to the world a quote allegedly from Senator Tom Coburn impugning my honesty. Within hours, Tom Coburn came out publicly and said, "That quote was an utter fabrication."

The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.

I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness.

If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he will adopt an expression that is at once solemn and shifty-eyed: solemn, because he feels he ought to declare an opinion; shifty-eyed, because he is wondering how to conceal the fact that he has no opinion to declare.

If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?

Your thoughts should agree with your words, and the words should agree with your actions. In this world people think one thing, say another thing, and do something else. This is horrible. This is crookedness.

The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!

Being with a man incapable of telling a lie – a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied – sucked the big one.

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery.

Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.

This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.

Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.

There are aspectsof this life-- of this world-- from which you can never walk away. Ever. The fact that almost everything you say to almost everyone you love for the rest of your life will be a lie is one of them.

The world makes liars of us all.