Lies Truth Quotes - Page 2

• Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Truth, Lying, Deceiving Others

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

  Donald James

  Truth, Lying, Democracies Have

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• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Truth, Lying

  The Arts, May 1923

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• When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

  William Blake

  Trust, Courage, Truth

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• If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Truth

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• A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.

  Charles Haddon

  Lying, Boots, World

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• Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

  George Herbert

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  Jeremy Taylor, John Wheeldon, George Herbert (1768). “Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor”, p.98

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• It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Truth, Liars

  The Idler Feb. 1892, p. 118

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• Children and fools always speak the truth

  Mark Twain

  Children, Fool, Speak

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.27, Book Tree

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• We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

  Denis Diderot

  Inspirational, Trust, Truth

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1821.

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  Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Clever

  "Contarini Fleming". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, 1832.

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• The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

  James A. Garfield

  Teacher, Encouragement, Strong Women

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• A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trust, Travel, Truth

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• The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

  Stephen King

  Trust, Liars, Lying

  Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

  Samuel Butler

  Hate, Lying, Mind

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 19

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  Who lies for you will lie against you.

  John Locke

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

  Unknown

  Enemy, German History, Nazism

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• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Liars, Lying, Deception

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.286

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• If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.

  Isa Blagden

  Truth, Lying, Interesting

  "The crown of a life". Book by Isa Blagden, 1869.

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• Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Politics

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• We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Wisdom, Lying, Lied

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Heartbreak, Truth, Lying

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1903). “Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts”

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• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

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