If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Lie
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
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
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
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
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
