Dan Ariely Quotes

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?

Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.

Lying was a way of life. The solution to the problem is ultrasimple: tell the truth, no matter how painful.

Tell the truth and run.

An untruth must be spoken, where need requires. For whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object. Men lie, because they think to gain by deceiving others; and speak the truth, because they expect to get something by their true speaking, and to be trusted afterwards in more important matters. Thus, though their conduct is so opposite, the end of both is alike. If there were no gain to be got, your true-speaking man would tell untruths as much as your liar, and your liar would tell the truth as much as your true-speaking man.

I cannot flinch from saying such things in public. As a Representative of the People I am duty bound to do so. Justice cries out to me not to dissemble.

You're under tremendous pressure, and everyone needs you to be perfect all the time, and that often creates a perverse incentive to not tell the truth. Please remember - when you get caught not telling the truth, it's over.

When I was a little kid, I used to get in trouble a lot for lying. Being raised religious, I believed that lying was sinful, so I felt guilty.

Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won't forgive you if you lie.

At the end of the day, if someone tries to conceal something they will, and when you find out, you deal with it. That's it. We can't possibly know everything that happens.

No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then - face the world.