Brian Eno Quotes

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

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.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him.

People aren't suckers. Some are, perhaps. But most people inside know when we're being lied to.

It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials.

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 like being innocent, but know now when I am being taken for a ride.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

Don't let people treat you like you're stupid. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.

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.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.