No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
Quotations
Lie
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
"The Book of Luke"
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
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
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
