Truth And Lies Quotes:

We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths...

- Bernhard Schlink

topic: Lying, Truth And Lies

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

- Jonathan Swift

source: Speech by PM Najib Razak at WAN-IFRA 16th Asian Media Awards, www.nst.com.my. April 19, 2017.

topic: Limping, Truth And Lies, Lies Truth, Truth And Falsehood

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

- Miguel Angel Ruiz

topic: Real, Lying, People, Truth And Lies

One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear.

- Cal Thomas

topic: Lying, Believe, People, Itching, Deteriorating

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

- Ann Landers

source: Ann Landers (1996). “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense”, Random House Large Print Publishing

topic: Positive, Witty, Truth, Lies Truth, Don't Lie To Me

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

- Stephen King

topic: Trust, Liars, Lying, Naivety, Lies And Liars

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.

- Tad Williams

topic: Honesty, Fear, Lying, Fear Of The Unknown, Lies Truth

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Suicide, Truth, Honesty, Lies And Liars, Lies Truth

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

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Truth, Lying, Liars, Lies And Liars, Lies Truth

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Truth, Intelligent, Greatness, Roman Emperor, Limited Perspective

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.

- Croft M. Pentz

topic: Honesty, Lying, Care, Lies Truth, Dishonesty And Lying

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

topic: Love, Life, Truth, Lies Truth, Respect Women

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Relationship, Trust, Cheating, Not Trusting, Lied To Me

Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Lying, Half, Newspapers, Half Truth, Truth And Lies

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

- James A. Garfield

topic: Teacher, Encouragement, Appreciation, Hard Truths, Powerful Women

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.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls”, Mjf Books

topic: Truth, Lying, Race, Lies Truth, Truth And Lies

Who lies for you will lie against you.

- John Locke

topic: Truth, Honesty, Lying, Lies Truth, Dishonesty And Lying

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

- Denis Diderot

source: "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1821.

topic: Inspirational, Trust, Truth, Inconvenient Truth, Lies Truth

The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

- Unknown

topic: Enemy, German History, Nazism, Lies Truth, War Propaganda

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Trust, Travel, Truth, Half Truth, Half Way

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.

- Isa Blagden

source: "The crown of a life". Book by Isa Blagden, 1869.

topic: Truth, Lying, Interesting, Lies Truth, Truth And Lies

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Funny, Bible, Truth, Inconvenient Truth, Jealousy And Insecurity

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

- Austin O'Malley

topic: Truth, Honesty, Liars, Lies And Liars, Lies Truth

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

- Otto von Bismarck

topic: Morning, Clever, Lying, Prussia, Lies Truth

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Trust, Peace, Fear, Great Liar, Ultimate Truth

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

- Galileo Galilei

source: "Angels in the workplace: stories and inspirations for creating a new world of work". Book by Melissa Giovagnoli, 1999.

topic: Inspirational, Truth, Science, Spiritual Truth, Mind Opening

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.

- Charles Churchill

topic: Truth, Lying, Believe, Clouded, Truth And Lies

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Trust, Karma, Betrayal, Lies And Liars, Being Lied

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

- Daniel Webster

source: Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “Legal arguments and speeches to the jury. Diplomatic and official papers. Miscellaneous letters”, p.68

topic: Truth, Honesty, Powerful, Nothing But The Truth, Truth And Lies

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

- Josh Billings

topic: Trust, Betrayal, Freedom, Ultimate Truth, Truth And Lies

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

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Truth, Lying, Dishonesty, Lies Truth, Masquerade

A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

- Anuj

topic: Lying, Heart, Character, Truth And Lies

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

topic: Truth, Children, Lying, Lies Truth, Truth And Lies

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Beautiful, Truth, Honesty, Spiritual Truth, Lies And Liars

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

- Mark Twain

topic: Wise, Children, Lying, Lies Truth, Deductions

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

- Mark Twain

topic: Life, Funny Inspirational, Honesty, Way In Life, Trustworthiness

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

- William Blake

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Fake People, Half Truth, Spiritual Truth

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

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Knowing The Truth, Lies And Liars

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Funny, Truth, Lying, Lies Truth, Dishonesty And Lying

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Being Yourself, Witty, Discovering Yourself, Just Being You

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Truth, Gravitation, Lies Truth

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.

- William Blake

topic: Trust, Courage, Truth, Knowing The Truth, Lies Truth

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 2, 1595.

topic: Life, Success, Truth, Truth And Lies, Saying The Truth

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

- Benjamin Disraeli

source: "Contarini Fleming". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, 1832.

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Truth, Just Being You, Lies Truth

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

source: Robert Louis Stevenson (1903). “Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts”

topic: Heartbreak, Truth, Lying, Lies And Liars, Lies In Love

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

- Mark Twain

topic: Truth, Way, Politics, My Attitude, Lies In Love

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

- Jesse Ventura

topic: Truth, Memories, Long, Way In Life, Inspirational Change

A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.

- Charles Haddon

topic: Lying, Boots, World, Lies Truth, Truth And Lies

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

- William Shakespeare

source: Sonnet 138

topic: Truth, Honesty, Lying, Truth And Lies

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Truth, Integrity, Lying, Moral Ethics, Lies In Love

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

- Isaac Newton

source: Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Uplifting, Famous Last Words, Mathematics And Science