If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Lie
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
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
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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"
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
