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Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
— Jacqueline Carey
Children and fools always speak the truth.
— Mark Twain
To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
— James Russell Lowell
When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
— Orson Scott Card
Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.
— Johann Georg Hamann
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
— Honore De Balzac
Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.And buried. — Simona Panova
Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
— Gail Caldwell
I'd lie for you and that's the truth.
— Meat Loaf
The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
— Washington Allston
There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.
— Alexander McCall Smith
If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.
— William Cowper
Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.
— Sergei Lukyanenko
Truth is better for humanity than ignorance, lies, or spin. And it's more interesting.
— Steve Sailer
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
— James E. Faust
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
— Jean Cocteau
When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.
— Bell Hooks
Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.
— Nawal El Saadawi
Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.
— Isaac Asimov
When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.
— Cormac McCarthy
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[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.
— Benazir Bhutto
Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion.
— Suzy Kassem
Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Don't be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.
— Dianna Hardy
Peace of mind comes with truth. Lying requires you to tell different lies over and over again. Tell the truth! Create beautiful memories.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Everything I show you is the truth-And the truth is the loveliest of lies.
— Richard Alan Simmons
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.
— Jenna Alatari
In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
— Emile Zola
If you're defending a lie, you can only defend it with obfuscations and other lies. You can't defend a lie with the truth.
— Harvey Bialy
The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.
— J.K. Rowling
Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction.
— Saul Bellow
Some will tell you that there are multiple worldviews. The Bible says we have only 2: the Truth and the Lie.
— Mark Driscoll
Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie,
— Jean-Luc Godard
We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth. — Barack Obama
All religions segregate also ... every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.
— R.J. Rushdoony
The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
— Leon Trotsky
Love - Truth-seeking The strength of Truth lies in Love and the strength of Love lies in Truth.
— Pandurang Shastri Athavale
Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,not only dust and stones, but errors and lies. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
— Robert Jordan
There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
— Marcus Aurelius
Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
— Rick Warren
To get at the truth of your calling, you have to crack open that false self and see what lies within.
— Justine Musk
The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.
— Robert Browning
You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
— Josefina Vazquez Mota
Perhaps by sharing my personal weight-loss journey on television, I can help others confront the truth and lies behind obesity.
— Ruby Gettinger
There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.
— Robert Breault
This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ?
— Donna Leon
Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
— Jean De La Fontaine
Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.
— Henry David Thoreau
What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.
— Milan Kundera
We are stuck in a generation where loyalty is just a tattoo, love is a quote and lying is the new truth.
— Anonymous
I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.
— Jim Butcher
It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.
— Mason Cooley
The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie
— Friedrich Nietzsche
This life is the greatest lie ever told and the hereafter is the greatest truth ever unknown
— Suhaib Webb
A thousand fools believe a lie, and it's good as truth.
— Joan Slonczewski
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
— George Eliot
There are three types of lies lies, damn lies, and statistics. — Benjamin Disraeli
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
— Alexander Pope
Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.
— Norman Mailer
How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.
— Sergei Lukyanenko
THERE WILL COME A DAY WHEN ALL THE LIES WILL COLLAPSE UNDER THEIR OWN WEIGHT, AND THE TRUTH WILL TRIUMPH AGAIN
— Joseph Goebbels
So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.
— George McGovern
Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.
— D.H. Lawrence
By the end of it all I just assumed no one ever told the truth, and that was when I started lying too.
— Jessica Knoll
