Quotations
Lie
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
- Robert Brault
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
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
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
Great liars are also Great magicians.
- Adolf Hitler
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
- The Talmud
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
- Robert Brault
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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