Wendy Kopp Quotes

When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.

… whoever brushes aside even a part of the truth, whether through intention or oversight, is doomed to fall. The truth he lacks thrives on negligence, and brings down whatever is built without it.

You better have your story down before you take it to a teenager.

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.

If you lie to a person at least tell someone else you've lied to the truth. It balances out your karma.

Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.

Plain lies are dangerous.

Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.

Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.

Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.

If you are going to do something that you have to lie about, don't do it, it's very simple.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.

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.

TRUTH may hurt temporarily, but LIES leave marks permanently.

We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth.

The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.

If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.

There's some things you can cover up. And there's some things you can't.