Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Lie
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
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
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-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"
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
