Aldous Huxley Quotes

To be persuasive we must be believable. To be believable, we must be truthful.

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

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.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

Trust the acting.

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

I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.

I'm genuine and people can believe what I say.

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

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

You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.

For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.

I'm not a liar.

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.