Art Garfunkel Quotes

Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

I don't have my name on anything that I don't really do.

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

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

… 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.

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.'

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

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 are committed to what you confess.

It is our responsibility not to make charges we can't substantiate

Whosoever fails to take small matters seriously in the spirit of truth, cannot be trusted in greater affairs.

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

The only way we can do oversight is if people tell the truth.

If there is one thing that our role models in this election have taught us, it's that omitting important information is completely different from lying.

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

I remember, years ago, if I had had an opportunity to leave the Lakers, I would have left for one reason: because I did not like an owner that was not telling me the truth. And it would have made no difference what they would have offered me; I would have left.

If you say something you have to take responsibility for it.