Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Lie
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
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"
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
