Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

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

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

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.

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.

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

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

Washington could not tell a lie; Nixon could not tell the truth; Reagan cannot tell the difference.

When you grow up, people don't speak the truth. You can see, when you trust people, you help them.

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

The worst thing you can do in a leadership position is be something you're not.

Somebody told me a long time ago that if everybody loves you, somebody's lying. It is the truest statement you could ever say to somebody.

I am not someone who can be fooled by praise at all. In fact, I quickly sniff out people who are being fake with me. It doesn't go unnoticed with me.

As a child, I saw how the industry's sweet-talkers operate. For years, they tried to make my father feel like he was the best actor in the whole world. My father never took them seriously. I, too, imbibed that trait from him.

There are managers who always say what people want to hear. I think that's not good.

You can't start anything and not trust nobody. You trust everybody until they do something wrong.

If you look like you're hiding something, we're more likely to swipe left.

If I like a person, I don't have any mask/filter. I will open up a lot. I had hurt myself in the past because a couple of persons took advantage of me. I realised that they are not genuine people. Since then, I take time to open myself up for new people.

People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake. [...] You never see a 10-megapixel photograph of Big Foot or the Abominable Snowman or the Loch Ness Monster.

If your not honest with yourself, how the hell are you gonna be honest with me.