Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

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

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

… 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.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

No lie ever reaches old age.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

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

Let every man be true and every god a liar.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but another lie made to fit it. Never, never!

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Sometimes it is necessary to make things clearer than the truth.

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

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are intentionally bad.

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatsoever. But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth.

Certainly today we are incredibly tolerant of untruth.

A falsehood in which some truth is not stated at the beginning, cannot be maintained in the end.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.