Thomas Sowell Quotes

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.

The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.