Untruthfulness Quotes

• The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Home, Doe, Reach Out

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 41e), 1980.

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• I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

  Jesse Ventura

  Truth, Lying, Personality

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ventura from Dec 22, 2014

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• A lie cannot live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Liars, Lying, Deception

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• Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

  Miroslav Volf

  Prejudice, Injustice, Form

  "Did 9/11 Make Us Morally 'Better'?" by Miroslav Volf, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2011.

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• The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Advertising, Repetition

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• Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable.

  Tony Kushner

  Depressing, Thinking, Imagination

  "Angels in America". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Unless we realize our sins enough to call them by name, it is hardly worth while to say anything about them at all. When we pray for forgiveness, let us say, "my temper," or "untruthfulness," or "pride," "my selfishness, my cowardice, indolence, jealousy, revenge, impurity." To recognize our sins, we must look them in the face and call them by their right names, however hard. Honesty in confession calls for definiteness in confession.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Revenge, Honesty, Pride

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Truthful

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.140, Hackett Publishing

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• The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

  Freya Stark

  Fashion, Art, Garden

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