Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Lie
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
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 Little Book in C Major"
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
