Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Lie
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
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
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
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
