Quotations
Lie
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
- Robert Brault
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
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
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
- Robert Brault
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
- 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
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