The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Lie
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
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 Little Book in C Major"
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
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
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
