Memorable Quotes About Lying And Truth

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"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
Mark Twain
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar Wilde
"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."
Plato
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."
Socrates
"People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the evidence but on the predisposition."
James Harvey Robinson
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
Mark Twain
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
Benjamin Disraeli
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"A half-truth is a whole lie."
Yiddish Proverb
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
Socrates
"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
Gloria Steinem
"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion."
Edward Abbey
"Truth never damages a cause that is just."
Mahatma Gandhi
"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."
William Blake
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
Alice Walker
"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed."
William Faulkner
"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth."
Leo Tolstoy
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"Anything is better than lies and deceit."
Leo Tolstoy
"A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable."
Mark Twain
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
Buddha
"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."
Confucius
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"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy; we reason from our hands to our head."
Henry David Thoreau
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
H.L. Mencken
"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?"
Maurice Freehill

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