Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Lie
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
-Charles Edward Montague
"Disenchantment"
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"
