Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Lie
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
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
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
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
