Rumi Quotes

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.

I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.

If people could be as honest as animals, what a different world it would be.

The truth just happens - lies take time to make.

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.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

I abhor hypocrisy.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.

I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.

I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil.

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

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

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth.

I'm a really bad liar.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.