Accepting Quote by Agnes Repplier

Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain… You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods

— Anonymous

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder.…

— Ted Koppel

Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered,…

— Samuel Johnson

Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those…

— David Hume

…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Nothing in this world is more powerful, or more dangerous, than the truth. That's why some people go to such lengths to avoid hearing…

— Jonathan Cainer

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

— William Gilmore Simms

“Where body language conflicts with the words that are being said, the body language will usually be the more 'truthful' in the sense of…

— Glen Wilson

“Communicating real, raw, harsh truth to people is always better than communicating a 'pleasant lie' . . .”

— Alan Roger Currie

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or…

— John Ruskin

Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare…

— William Hazlitt

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness…

— Steven Pinker