The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
-Hannah Arendt
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
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
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
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
