Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Lie
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
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"
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
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
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
