Michael Jackson Quotes

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Please don't believe everything you hear about me, regardless of how true it may be.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.

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

Remember this about any slander. Denial only emphasizes, and gives added importance to falsehood. Let it alone and it will die for want of nourishment.

Stop lying about my record.

Certainly today we are incredibly tolerant of untruth.

Before speaking without knowledge, saying lies, you have to present evidence.

That's the part I kept trying to say on Queen Radio: I don't have to believe you because you're saying it. I'm not saying you're a liar, I learned that long ago too. There's a big difference between you're a liar and I don't believe you.

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

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

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

Everywhere you go you hear things that are untrue. You've just got to learn that if I don't say it, physically out of my mouth, on camera, it's not true.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.