Lies Truth Quotes

light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. ~ Brandon Sanderson

In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him. ~ Kristin Cashore

Humankind doesn't have a genuine intellectual memory. They don't need the Truth. They don't want to know the Truth. ~ Robert Neil Fleischer

In no time, truth shall prevail because if you want to be set free, you have to know and be set free from the truth not lies. ~ Jennifer Aquillo

Truth has a power only the courageous can handle. ~ Anthon St. Maarten

The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it. ~ Orson Scott Card

Believe no-one, doubt everything and remember, everyone lies". ~Prof. Nick Fennimore ~ A.D. Garrett

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies. ~ Dean Koontz

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie! ~ Sidney Howard

People only lie because they are afraid of the truth ~ Madison Reil

If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied? ~ Michael Duncan

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. ~ Pablo Picasso

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain't it ... ~ Terry McMillan

Everything unsaid can be guessed
Truth may not always be confessed ~ Munia Khan

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies. ~ Franz Kafka

From history books you should at best believe just the punctuation. The rest is uncertain, incomplete, distorted, exaggerated or even fabricated. ~ A.J. Beirens

The odds of telling the truth may set you free when the odds of telling a lie are against you. ~ Cory Stallworth

But what do you say if you're asked a direct question and you can't tell the truth and you can't tell a lie?'
'You say "how very interesting" and change the subject. ~ Dick Francis

You can stand on truth but you will limp on lies. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

One sincere truth from a stranger is more likely to move your life forward...than anything your friends and family may tell you to spare your feelings. ~ Anthon St. Maarten

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade. ~ Jodi Picoult

The truth only hurts when you want to believe a lie. ~ Jennifer McVey

And lies, of course - It's like astronomy, I always say. Clever fellows, the astronomers, they can tell ever such a lot about something they can't see by the shadow it casts over something they can. Same with lies. The shape of a lie will often give you the truth. ~ K.J. Parker

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights ... A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure ~ Francis Bacon

Lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms. ~ Giacomo Casanova

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie. ~ Robert Jordan

You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you. ~ Daniel Wallace

Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right.
"The common good and the individual good rarely coincide ... "
Sure, I know, it's true.
But some truths are probably worse than lies. ~ Sergei Lukyanenko

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. ~ Aristotle.

The truth is always stronger than the lie. ~ Joseph Goebbels

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander ~ Abraham Lincoln

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves. ~ Yiyun Li

I don't care what you meant to do. I really don't.
I only care about what you actually do. That's important. The rest of it is just a bunch of bull shit.
--- Grace. ~ Christian Kiefer

Lies are terrible things. One could say that the greatest sins afflicting modern society are the proliferation of lies and silence. We lie through our teeth, then swallow our tongues. All the same, were we to speak only the truth all year round, then the truth might lose its value. ~ Haruki Murakami

Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies. ~ Anne Rice

Jimmi manages a laugh that makes my skin crawl. Do you really think what you read in those books is true? Sure, some of it may be but have you ever actually paid attention to it? It's all false set upon us as truth. You can't coat something with lies and intend it to go away. It's asinine and lackluster at best. ~ Celia Mcmahon

Life's wildest moment
she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies. ~ Henry Miller

Truth may sometimes appear to be unpalatable and unreasonable. But ultimately, it finds its own way to establish itself. ~ Nihar Satpathy

Idea 721. Lies always have a purpose; but a truth has no such compulsion! The very purpose of lies is that they have to be told somewhere. Otherwise there arises no necessity to create them. The truth exists as it is; only some confess and others do not. ~ Thiruman Archunan

Omitting the truth is its own kind of lie. ~ Ted Sanders

We are lying to ourselves when we're not contradicting ourselves. ~ Marty Rubin

In a world that loves lies, truth is subject to the greatest libels. ~ Orrin Woodward

So you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, that's good to know, I guess."
"I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways."
"How'd you mean it, then?"
"I just ... I don't always say what I feel."
"Why not?"
"Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
"Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though. ~ Sarah Dessen

The most harmful lies and the most hurtful, always contain a grain of truth," he said. "But nevertheless, lies they do remain. ~ Robin Jarvis

Truth is a weapon and lies are a necessary shield. ~ Mark Lawrence

A lie repeated many times doesn't change the truth. ~ Frank Sonnenberg

A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long. ~ Anurag Shourie

Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again ... , only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth. ~ Asger Jorn

Things around here function on lies because if people knew the truth, it wouldn't work. ~ Kayla Krantz

It's a war of truths; everyone has his own truth, his own vision of the world. The truth with more firepower will win the day and reign supreme ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Lying is not a sin, since there has never been a law-maker or philosopher who could determine what truth is. I lie for the fun of it. I lie for the fear of the gravity of life. I lie out of boredom. How can anyone who has more fantasy than the Catholic evening paper get by without lying? ~ Iwan Goll

A half empty bottle of wine is also half full, but half a lie will never be half true ~ Jean Cocteau

There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors; she does not know herself. 'I can endure lies,' she cries. 'I cannot survive this stifling verisimilitude ~ Thornton Wilder

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway. ~ Christine Feehan

You cannot believe everything you hear ~ Jude Morgan

A few sentences are enough to tell the truth. ~ Robert Sarah

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It is much harder to lie to someone's face.
But.
It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face. ~ David Levithan

If somebody says to you the quote"don't judge the book by its cover", then better first close your eyes for a moment and try not to judge anybody at all. Even much better if you don't have to believe in 100% with that quote. ~ Toba Beta

It feels nice to emerge from the lies. ~ Markus Zusak

You don't have to feed the lie if you don't want it to. If you make it credible it will become that, but only in your mind and only as disproportionate as you've decided it is. Truth has a way of being more persistent and if the two ever meet, truth will win. ~ Howard L. Salter

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies. ~ Robert Breault

I don't really like lies. I prefer to tell the truth whenever possible. It's much easier to keep track of. ~ Morgan Rhodes

The irony in any investigation was that lies were often protectors of the truth - unless they became too powerful, in which case lies were like worker bees who turn on their queen. ~ Jacqueline Winspear

It's not because it's popular that it is true. The mass doesn't care about truth; in fact it cherishes carefully crafted lies ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

There was no better way to sell a lie, she knew, than to sprinkle it with truth. ~ Kaede Lazares

Even a thousand loud lies become powerless in front of one calm truth. ~ Abhijit Naskar

There's an intimacy in listening to somebody's lies, I've always thought
you learn more about someone from the things they wish were true than from the things that actually are. ~ Jennifer DuBois

There are lies that heal and truths that kill. ~ Marty Rubin

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies ~ Jodi Picoult

Millennias old lies can be gradually accepted as truth.
This is the real ultimate power of historical engineering. ~ Toba Beta

Lies run fast, truth walks on crutches. ~ Jyoti Arora

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

half truths equal whole lies ~ Fred Munoz

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. ~ Tacitus

And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the one who tells them. ~ Karen Abbott

Don't try to eliminate lies, just add truth ~ Meir Ezra

Never tell an unnecessary lie; the truth has great authority. The cleverest murders have been caught, not because they told the one essential lie, but because they continued to lie about unimportant detail when the truth could have done them no harm. ~ P.D. James

It is my belief ... that the truth is generally preferable to lies. ~ J.K. Rowling

Sometimes a lie builds until the truth does more harm than good ~ Luke Scull

Belief in the lie is the life of the lie. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

There must be repressed truth even in lies. ~ Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

I know it's a lot. But she can handle it. I'd rather ruin her with the truth than ruin her with lies. ~ Maria Semple

But here's something that I know about friendship: Sometimes the right thing to do is to not point out that your friend hasn't touched her chicken fingers or French fries and not point that maybe she's just overreacting. Instead, you just smile and sit with her and say, "I understand" when really, you don't understand her at all. ~ Dana Reinhardt

[ ... ] one must have known the Levant to be able to conceive how readily persons intelligent and otherwise respectable will prefer a lie to the truth, when the slightest advantage is to be gained by the use of a falsehood. ~ George Perkins Marsh

Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. "Almost" always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible. ~ Fyodor Sologub

She isn't acting hurt, she is acting angry," Jared said, feeling frustrated himself.
"I know, Jared, I know. Right now, she has a distorted view of herself and the world. The only way to effectively combat a lie is with the truth. ~ Sarah Holman

The truth will set you free, its the little white lies that'll save your ass. ~ James Patterson

A lie can outlast any truth. ~ Ruth Ware

It's been my experience when you lie things work out in such a way that you are obliged to tell many more lies to cover up your first one. It's so much easier to just tell the truth the first time around. ~ Astrid Yrigollen

The best lie was always just short of the truth. ~ Roderick Vincent

We all see the world through our own lies. ~ Tina Geyer

[Rangers] discover the truth though it is surrounded by a bodyguard of lies. ~ Ysbeau Wilace

Evil speaks in lies.
And the good know only one truth. But it's a lie, because there's always more than one truth ~ Steven Erikson

I feel inauthentic at a party ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies. ~ Susan Sontag

It is as if Little Red Riding Hood had asked the wolf: "Dear Grandmother, what is the truth for?" And the wolf had replied: "The truth helps me tell you better lies. ~ Sara Castro-Klaren

Objective truth is difficult to come by, and even if you have it, what you can pass on to the next person is the story that you tell about it. In order for truth to be recognized as true, it has to be wrapped in plausibility. Just the same as lies. (Another Word: Plausibility and Truth ~ Daniel Abraham

What are you suggesting I do Ralph?'
'I'm suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads is trouble.'
"Sometimes that's the only place telling the truth get you, too. ~ M.L. Stedman