Jack Kornfield Quotes

I want a language that speaks the truth.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.

it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee

Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

Everything I say comes from my heart - and it's the truth.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

Let him say what is true, let him say what is pleasing, let him utter no disagreeable truth, and let him utter no agreeable falsehood; that is the eternal law.

Don't say things about people that aren't true... because there are consequences for that.

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

Fair words cost nothing.

If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

Be Impeccable with Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words.

The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

And if candor strikes to forcefully, step back, draw careful breath, and consider the angle your words must take before you open your mouth, let them leak out. Because once you tilt the truth, it becomes a lie.

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.