Lao Tzu Quotes

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

Let me tell you something about myself. I am a straight shooter.

I am not someone who can be fooled by praise at all. In fact, I quickly sniff out people who are being fake with me. It doesn't go unnoticed with me.

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous.

Say as you think and speak it from your souls.

There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.

I abhor hypocrisy.

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

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

You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

It is foreign to the Cherokee principle to feign friendship where it does not exist.

It has to come from a truthful place in order to be funny.

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

There's no smoke and mirrors here.

You can tell when somebody's authentic about what they're saying.

Some people say things they think you want to hear, and some people say the things they are actually thinking.

I have little time for sincerity.

Troy Deeney is a good guy, he's one of the nicest guys I've played with. He says it how it is. He's not a guy that beats around the bush. If he's not happy, he says what he feels.