A Quote by Babe Paley
I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.
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Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.
If only religious leaders could be trusted, then maybe there wouldn't be so many problems. They have perverted any truth that the Bible may have.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Dude, what matters is if you're happy. What matters is your future. What matters is that we get out of here in one piece. What matters is finding the truth of our own lives, not caring about what other people think is the truth of us.
Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known and seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men.
But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and
on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from
the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted.
Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.
If a person chooses not to be a writer, or speaker, then (by definition) the person is choosing not to be engaged in an effort,"to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them," apart, perhaps, from some circle of immediate associates.
Objective reality - otherwise known as the truth - matters.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
The very highest is barely known.
Then comes that which people know and love,
Then that which is feared,
Then that which is despised.
Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.
Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.
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