Speaking Truth
Truth may be difficult, but lies ultimately fail. Speaking truth maintains trust and enables genuine relationships.
Truth may be difficult, but lies ultimately fail. Speaking truth maintains trust and enables genuine relationships.
A lie travels fast, but truth catches up. Better bitter truth than sweet lies.
Pan-African Proverbs
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- What African wisdom says about forgiveness
Which is why the truth has to be said out loud first. A lie travels fast but truth catches up; a reconciliation built on an agreed silence about what happened is the kind of peace these concepts expect to fail later.
- What African wisdom says about what to say and what to leave unsaid
The limit on silence. Better a bitter truth than a sweet lie, because a lie travels fast but truth catches up — which rules out the most tempting form of discretion, the one where you say nothing and let a false impression stand.