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We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths.
Sep 17, 2025
Children and fools always speak the truth
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, even though it be covertly, and by snatches.
Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as [Vaclav] Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.
Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.
Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.
In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
Who lies for you will lie against you.
A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.” “Sounds okay,” I said and I kind of closed my eyes.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.