Quotations
Lie
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
- H. L. Mencken
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
- Terri Guillemets
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
- Hannah Arendt
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Robert Paul “Tad” Williams
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A liar lies to himself as well as to the gods. Lying is the origin of all evils; it leads to rebirth in the miserable planes of existence, to breach of the pure precepts, and to corruption of the body.
- Maharatnakuta Sutra 27
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
- Jenny O'connell
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
- Robert Brault
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
- Robert Brault
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