“Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.”
Source: Harriet the Spy
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to have a good memory. If you lie, you're always tripping over your own tie.”
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Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/JJMinisodes#p/u/7/hpLSM73I6ZM ("If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" - Mark Twain)
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American lawyer, judge, television personality, and author 1942Related quotes
Ben Carson
(1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
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“Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.”
Mark Twain
(1835–1910) American author and humorist
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
Notebook entry, January or February 1894, Mark Twain's Notebook, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine (1935), p. 240 http://books.google.com/books?id=DjBVlb7cBSIC&pg=PA240
Variant: If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“To have a good memory the first thing you have to do is to trust your memory.”
Paul Sophus Epstein
(1883–1966) Russian-American mathematician
Jesse W. M. DuMond, Paul Sophus Epstein http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=568&page=147, in Biographical Memoirs V.45, National Academy of Sciences (NAS), published by National Academies Press (1974), ISBN 0-309-02239-8, p. 140
Abigail Thorn
(1993) British actress and YouTuber
Jordan Peterson's Ideology | Philosophy Tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m81q-ZkfBm0, 09.04.2021
When you remember everything you not only remember what you did right, you also remember your mistakes great and small. Also others seldom like to be made aware of their own mistakes that you may remember as well. They tend to get upset when reminded of them.