Howard Gardner Quotes

Certainly today we are incredibly tolerant of untruth.

… 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.

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

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

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

Men lie, women lie, numbers don't.

Listen: women lie, men lie, but numbers don't lie, guy.

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

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

I'm not a liar.

In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

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.

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

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.

I doubt he knows himself when he’s not telling the truth.

Liars sometimes tell the truth; they don’t tell lies all the time.

What is earnest is not always the truth.

There is no truth in him, and men who cannot tell the truth are not to be trusted either in public or private life.

The truth is more important than the facts