what is good telling lies or speaking truth

I am not a perfect person but I tried not to lie to anybody else. I gained a lot of true friends for telling them the truth. As I remember when I was young like Elementary and high school, I didn't have a lot of friends because I didn't want somebody asking me about myself. I rather stay in the library reading books and studying my lessons, if not I will go with my uncle and aunties as well as my brothers playing volleyball. They said I'm aloof and kind of weird. When I was in college, same thing happened, as the second to the last semester, I did my on the job training (student teacher). We're 8 in the groups of major in Science. We did our meeting and everybody agreed to visit one of us in each house just before the finals except me. I dis-agree and said I am not into it because our house is not presentable, besides it is very far remote area. I told them, we are poor and no money to buy foods and snacks for them. I did so many alibis but it was true. I am not shy at all of telling the truth who I really am. I know that we were only two in the group that were not or shall I said our parents don't have a good income like the others. I did not go with them to visit each house, in my thought so they don't have to go to mine and visit me. Well, days passed and they talked their experiences and to my embarrassment they mentioned that one of the member in the group lied about the appliances in the house. She got caught because the nephew came and claimed that her aunt borrowed all their appliances. So because of this she lost a friend and they ignored her. I just sighed. I really thought they don't want to pursue of going to my house the next weekend. To my surprised, I heard one of the voice outside asking where is my house, I looked at the window and I wanna melt and vanished at that very moment. they knocked on my door, my mother opened it and called me. OMG! they brought cold soft drinks, foods and snacks and they both smiled and said sorry for visiting. they know that I am shy but they all said, I am worthy to be their friends. Everywhere I go, I met true friends but not all the time, I met some liar friend too.

Why it is always good to tell the truth than telling lies? Simple- because truth always prevail and I don't want to put myself in shame when truth reveals everything. So, it is always best to tell the truth and be honest than telling lies that one day will surely come out and will slap your face.

It depends what kind of thing you are telling to people, and what your motives are. You should always try to make sure that you tell people the information that is not going to upset them, because that obviously isn't something that you really want to be doing. If you are friends with somebody then you should be able to see whether a piece of information would upset them or not, and if you can tell that you would be alright telling them then the best thing to do would always be to tell the truth if you could.

Well, I have always spoken the truth, I guess thats why nobody like me very much. It is true what they say, people do not like hearing the truth. I cannot help myself because I see it like it is. And I do have a blunt way of saying things also. I do tell non truths to my evil ex, mainly because she does not deserve to know anything about me anymore.

It depends. It's time-being. Sometimes, it (telling lies) can be inevitable. All we can do is "Trying to be honest and speaking truth as soon as possible". Keep smiling.

I believe that "honesty is the best policy". I know sometimes we all tell a lie either to save our own skin or to spare someone's feelings, but it can rebound on you and cause more problems in the long run. So I have found that being truthful is the best way to go. It may be hard as some people do not handle the truth well, but in the long run you feel better about yourself if you tell the truth.

Personally, I think this is of some importance, as there are people out there who I really think do not know the difference or why telling lies is not good, and you are better off when you tell the Truth. For me, there are so many people out there that tend to get used to telling a lie that they themselves do not even know the Truth and constantly having to cover up the Lies they just told. It might have even happened here. But personally don't people always feel better when telling the Truth?

It all depends with the situation. White lies is accepted as long as it could save you from harm.

We have always been taught to tell the truth always. But sometimes telling the truth can hurt a loved one. Instead of telling the whole truth, we sometimes end up saying the "twisted" truth so that they would not feel bad.

I agree with you, telling the truth is the most appropriate moves whether its hurt or not, or at the end we will suffer the consequences. My wife had taught me a lot of things and now I realize the importance of telling the truth in the earliest time.So there's nothing to regret at the end.

By speaking truth one can avoid the repetition of lies.By not speaking lie one can avoid fear of lying.