Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Lie
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
-Charles Edward Montague
"Disenchantment"
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
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
"The Book of Luke"
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
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
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
