Their needs will always be more
important than telling you any truth that isn't in their favor..
As Megan McArdle commented in her discussion of the Peter Gleick affair, After you have convinced people that you fervently believe your cause to be more
important than telling the truth, you've lost the power to convince them of anything else.
The problem is with Megan McArdle's Law: «After you have convinced people that you fervently believe your cause to be more
important than telling the truth, you've lost the power to convince them of anything else.»
Not exact matches
Peace is, in certain instances, more
important than telling the whole
truth.
But it's
important to note that if we are going to take the 9th commandment seriously we have to do more
than not lie — we must
tell the
truth, and even defend those who are being lied about.
His experience in running the agency was more
important for the senators
than the «lesser issue» of
truth telling.
One of the most
important of these is that the brain has to work much harder to lie
than to
tell the
truth.
Lets see without trying to sound like everything else you will read... I am a genuine soul who is open to all possibilities... I believe the most
important thing in any relationship romantic or not is HONESTY... I would rather have you be mad at me for
telling the
truth than lying to you... a persons...
The
truth about us is that we are more comfortable with films that fortify the base of our society — the one that
tells us that men are more
important than we are.
However, the best agents realize that
telling the homeowner the
truth is more
important than getting the seller to like them.
Instead, they
tell you 1) that women don't REALLY know what they want and it's your job to MAKE THEM SEE what they really want and 2) what is most
important is the end goal of dating and sleeping with a woman rather
than treating her like a person, so lying or obscuring the
truth is perfectly okay.
I think also of some experiences I've had with Indians, where being truthful was less
important as a discrete ethic
than what I observe in American culture, and for whom if lying in the end preserves some sense of desirable social order, it is equally or not more ethical
than telling the
truth.
The most
important sentence and most
telling truth within your piece is thus: «Analytical talent is more
important than persuasive.»