193 quotes found
“Earlier People used to hate a lieSince now lie has become truth and truth has become a lie.They still hate a lie”
“We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.”
“We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. We hate ourself for being unable to be other than what we are. Unable to be better. We feel rage. ...”
“I walk away,I walk away from the voices,the shouts,the disappointment. I walk away from my deceptions,my mistakes,my regrets.I walk away from all that I am supposed to be and all I cannot be.For al...”
“What I keep in secret, it makes you to get closer as fast you get to the secret and you reveal it. You don't have anymore the "want" or the "will" or the "motivation" which to make you want to like...”
“A lie distorts the image of reality. It is a delusion of the human mind which can disrupt an individual's sense of what is morally right or wrong.”
“Never lie. Firstly, you will be caught in the lie sooner or later. Secondly, count on problems when repairing the consequences of the lie. Therefore, always tell the truth no matter how unpleasant ...”
“The best lies were always mixed with truth.”
“I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.”
“For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth--about everything. That will teach them”
“They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing a...”
“Many lies lie between one truth.”
“To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.”
“When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. Mythomania is the word for it.”
“Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don't intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or no intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but befo...”
“Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to believe your own lies. You cant leak your hidden inten...”
“But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I had adopted the prevaricator's credo that one doesn't so much fabricate a li...”
“But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that th...”
“Perception is the lie that we convince ourselves exists”
“The difference between a truth and a lie is determined when one chose to accept the other.”
