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  • Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

    Truth   Children   Lying  
  • The truth is more important than the facts.

    Wise   Witty   Truth  
    Frank Lloyd Wright (2014). “Letters to Architects”, p.170, Elsevier
  • Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

    Art   Truth   Lying  
    The Arts, May 1923
  • As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

    Funny   Trust   Truth  
    Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)
  • When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

  • Who lies for you will lie against you.

    Truth   Honesty   Lying  
  • Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

  • We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

    Wisdom   Lying   Lied  
    Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
  • I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

  • And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

  • If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

    Truth   Lying   Liars  
  • O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

    Wisdom   Truth   Lying  
    Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)
  • If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

    Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.2, Classics HD
  • We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths.

    FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Aug 10, 2010
  • I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

    Truth   Lying   Believe  
    S. E. Hinton (2012). “That Was Then, This Is Now”, p.104, Penguin
  • A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

    'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53
  • If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.

    "The crown of a life". Book by Isa Blagden, 1869.
  • Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

    Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)
  • The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

    Truth   Lying   Race  
    Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls”, Mjf Books
  • Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too many. Truth is barbed: if it comforts, it lies. Truth is an armed dancer.

    Truth   Lying   Reality  
    Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

    Positive   Witty   Truth  
    Ann Landers (1996). “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense”, Random House Large Print Publishing
  • The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

    Respect   Lying   Men  
    Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.582, e-artnow
  • The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.

    Lying   Simple   Air  
    Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.178, Macmillan
  • Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

    Wise   Truth   Lying  
    "Academici". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book IV, Chapter 21), translated, 45 BC.
  • When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

    Trust   Courage   Truth  
  • He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.” “Sounds okay,” I said and I kind of closed my eyes.

    Sports   Pain   Revenge  
  • He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

    Liars   Lying   Deception  
    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.286
  • We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

    "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1821.
  • Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as [Vaclav] Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

    James W. Sire (2000). “Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling”, p.215, InterVarsity Press
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