Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

I'm not a particularly good liar.

I don't talk for the sake of talking and I don't talk with a forked tongue.

I don't tell lies. I don't need to.

That soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

I don't like fake people.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

I'm a tell-it-like-it-is kind of person; I don't like being misled or someone not telling the truth. That upsets me.

Being slick is not the right answer.

I cannot deceive my people.

There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.

If you're not sincere with it, you shouldn't say anything at all.

One of the things I learned early on was the system of believing: you have to believe in what you say. The camera is the arbiter of truth; it's the all-seeing eye that can pick out discrepancies. You can't lie to the camera. You must believe in what you're saying, or the audience won't believe you.

I'm not good at fake.

I'm not a fake one.

I don't really like the term 'honest.'

It's so much easier to be truthful. Maybe I'm just too lazy to lie.

I'm about as honest as I can get.

I lie very little and am a very straight-forward person.

I'm not a fake person.

There's freedom in being rigorously honest. I lied all my life.