Kesalahan adalah pangkal pengetahuan. Yang penting adalah memahami bila membuat kesalahan sehingga dapat diperbaiki dan belajar dari kesalahan tersebut untuk meraih pemahaman. Belajar adalah cara memperbaiki kesalahan. Sehingga jangan takut membuat kesalahan dan yang lebih penting lagi, jangan takut belajar dari kesalahan tersebut. Perbedaan antara orang yang pintar dan orang yang bodoh adalah, orang yang pintar belajar dari kesalahahnnya dan menjadikannya sumber ilmu. Sementara orang yang bodoh tidak pernah mengakui kesalahannya sehingga hidup dalam kebodohannya. - desi anwar
Why would you deliberately give someone the wrong impression? What would make you alter or exaggerate the facts? Why would you present a false picture?
Whether you call them white lies, fibs, half-truths or exaggerations, lying is lying.
For example, you spill some water on your office's copy machine and it makes a funny sound. Just as you leave the room to find a towel, your boss walks in and tries to make a copy.
He says, "Hey! Why isn't the copier working? And who spilled this water?"
You shrug and mumble, "Umm, don't know" as your face turns red.
You wonder, "Why did I just lie to my boss?"
"Lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences* should one tell the truth." -- L. Ron Hubbard (*consequences = effects, results)
A certain English-language paper had me in stitches a few days back when it gave a literal translation of an Indonesian expression in one of its front-page stories. The s...
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