Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Lie
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
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"
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-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
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
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
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
