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Enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in finding it — Leo Tolstoy

Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can't speak for itself, it's not truth. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth. — David Whyte

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love. — Anne Rice

The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it. — Leo Tolstoy

I have learned that it is not the truth that will hurt you - it is the lies. — Marion Elizabeth Witte

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. — Leo Tolstoy

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester — Anne Perry

A lot of the signs are evident before the lies start and the actions deviate. Many women do not even want to hear the truth — A.H. Carlisle III

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

Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith. — Johann Georg Hamann

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told. — Samuel Johnson

All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth. — Blaise Pascal

We need not to put words in the mouth of truth. Truth cannot digest lies — Kishore Bansal

Truth does not surround itself with lies. — John Christopher

Truth's opposite is not a lie, but a hundred thousand lies. — Marty Rubin

Lies are like anchovies in a Caesar salad. You may not be able to see them, but your soul knows they are there. — Molly Friedenfeld

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth. — Joe Wilson

He who dares not offend cannot be honest. — Thomas Paine

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed. — Diogenes

The truth is not a downer," Abraham said in his lightly accented voice. "The lies that you pretend to accept are the true downer. — Brandon Sanderson

We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies. — Val Edward Simone

Half the lies I tell are not true. To tell you the truth, half the true tales I tell are lies. — Jack Thanatos

Were I you, I'd not put my trust in stories. They tend to pass off lies as the truth and hide the truth in their lies. — Lisa Maxwell

Lies and half-truths hurt not only the liar, but the people they love most. — Katherine Allred

The truth about life and lie about life is not measured by others but by your intuition, which never lies. — Santosh Kalwar

All lies are not meant to deceive, some become inevitable in a society lacking in transparency and openness. — Tarif Naaz

I don't believe the devil, I don't believe his book, but the truth is not the same without the lies he made up — Bono

If there is the truth to be told to the young, is the truth of not to lie. — Auliq Ice

It is worse than folly ... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow. — Pearl S. Buck

The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe. — Eugene J. Martin

It felt like all the truth got whitewashed with fake happiness," she said, "only it was not happy and it was worse than fake. It was dangerous — Amy Tan

Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams. — Pier Paolo Pasolini

Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion. — Mollie Marti

It's not God who doesn't care, it's us — Frank Warren

Not when tradition is built upon Truth".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth. — Lily Tomlin

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not all truths hurt. And not all that is hurtful is truthful. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what. — Margot Livesey

The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth. — Ray Manzarek

All of us can lie but it is not a must that we should lie. — Auliq Ice

These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them. — Richard Perle

The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always. — Meredith Hall

Truth lies not only in what is said, but also in who says it, to whom, why, how and under what circumstances. — Vaclav Havel

The denial of truth does not harm the Truth; it only harms that which denies the Truth. — Criss Jami

Lies do not lie, truth do, In the times of any act lies lie hidden behind. — Santosh Kalwar

,the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do. — Sara Shepard

I'm not going to lie: there are no good options here. — Jackson Lanzing

Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear. — Saahil Prem

Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."
The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels? — Sarah MacLean

It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if not more. — William Trevor

but on Barsoom no man lies; if he does not wish to speak the truth he is silent. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

The motive force of history is truth and not lies. — Leon Trotsky

Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,
not only dust and stones, but errors and lies. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes. — Richard Cecil

Not all the things you understand are the truth, and not all the things you don't understand are lies. — Bob Ong

False has many wings. Do not judge anything by its popularity. — Amit Ray

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running. — Ljupka Cvetanova

The secret is not to think, we think in words. And what lies beyond the reality we see is a truth that words can't contain, the secret is to feel. — Dean Koontz

If there were lies to photography, I figured, there was truth too, truths we'd never see if not through the dispassionate glass eye of a camera. — Richard E. Gropp

People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there — Zoe Marriott

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer then the truth — Leah Wilson

Actively repeating a lie or denial does not make it true. — Cathy Burnham Martin

Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is So.
Non-Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is Not So. — Donald L. Hicks

True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,
But found in the soul within. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is. — Celia Rees

Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh-and-blood person who will not, for a dead truth is better than a live falsehood. — L. Frank Baum

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. — Virginia Woolf

Some mathematician has said that enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in the finding it. — Leo Tolstoy

Pretension, dear love, does not buy truth into lies, nor alter its course. — Sreesha Divakaran

The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again. — Lisa Unger

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth. — Josh Lanyon

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable. — Sophocles

What most people call truth is merely the surface, and under it lies a great depth of truth that they do not perceive. — Dean Koontz

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. — Rabindranath Tagore

Inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect. — Criss Jami

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise. — Karl Barth

A curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it. — Richard Sibbes

Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone. — Anthony Marais

Here lies clever Trevor;
Truth was not his friend.
He lied until the end;
Now, he'll lie forever. — Esther Spurrill Jones

[T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats. — Chauncey Depew

The beauty and gift of truth, is that it is not dependent upon your belief in order to remain true — A. Dragonblood