Quotes About Trust

I still find that a willingness to be honest—especially about things that one might be expected to conceal—often leads to much more gratifying exchanges with other human beings.

Communications like these can still be awkward, but a wasteland of embarrassment and social upheaval can generally be avoided by following a single precept: Do not lie.

Our public discourse appears permanently riven by conspiracy theories.

It is simply astonishing how people destroy their marriages, careers, and reputations by saying one thing and doing another.

How would your relationships change if you resolved never to lie again? What truths about yourself might suddenly come into view? What kind of person would you become? And how might you change the people around you?

uncritical loyalty

Mentir es alzar una frontera entre la verdad en la que vivimos y la percepción que los demás tienen de nosotros.

But you seem to have a very strong intuition, which I share, that we should consider honesty to be a nearly ironclad principle, because it is to everyone's advantage so much of the time, and it allows us to live the kinds of lives and maintain the kinds of relationships we want to have.

Mentir es confundir intencionadamente a los demás cuando esperan recibir una comunicación honesta.

Dr. W. David Hager

came away convinced that lying, even about the smallest matters, needlessly

relationships

Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence whatsoever.

By lying, we deny our friends access to reality9—and their resulting ignorance often harms them in ways we did not anticipate. Our friends may act on our falsehoods, or fail to solve problems that could have been solved only on the basis of good information. Rather often, to lie is to infringe on the freedom of those we care about.

Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. Knowing that we told the truth in the past leaves us with nothing to keep track of. We can simply be ourselves in every moment. In

Funny or not, the story reveals something distasteful about Sita: She will lie when it suits her needs.

Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.

I came away convinced that lying, even about the smallest matters, needlessly damages personal relationships and public trust.

Uno de los principales problemas del mentiroso es que debe seguir el rastro de sus mentiras.

Cuando decimos la verdad, no tenemos nada a lo que seguir el rastro.

Pero el mentiroso deber recordar lo que dijo, y a quién; y debe cuidarse de mantener las falsedades para el futuro.

Lies beget other lies.

las investigaciones indican que los mentirosos confían menos en aquellos a quienes mienten que si no les mintieran; y cuanto más dañinas son sus mentiras, menos confían en sus víctimas, e incluso menos les agradan. Parece que los mentirosos suelen despreciar a las personas a las que mienten para preservar su ego e interpretar que su conducta está justificada.

it is in believing one thing while intending to communicate another that every lie is born.