If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Lie
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
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
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
