Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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

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

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

If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.

I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.

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.

I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

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

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

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

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies

I don't like fake people.

If you're faking it, people will know, and it's going to turn a lot of people off.

I think you can fool people once but you can't fool the people all the time.

People can smell when things aren't genuine.

People can smell a fake.

I don't play mind games.

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.

There are managers who always say what people want to hear. I think that's not good.

I have little time for sincerity.