41 result(s) for Sweet Lies And Bitter Truths Quotes.
"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth."
"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion."
"People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the evidence but on what they find attractive."
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
"A bitter truth is better than a sweet lie."
"It is always better to have no ideas than false ones."
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
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"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."
"Truth is tough. It will not break like a bubble at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full-sized at evening."
"There are some who twist a lie into truth with rhetoric and sophistry."
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going nowhere."
"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."
"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate."
"Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
"Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said."
"The truth is a snare; you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."
"People can accept the truth, but they often prefer lies."
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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."
"Untruth does not do the service of truth."
"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."
"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true."
"People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the evidence but on the basis of what they find attractive."
"It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom."
"Illusions commend themselves to us because they spare us pain; pleasures, on the other hand, do not."
"We are soothed by gentle lies, and brutal truths do no service."
"People hear what they want to hear and believe what they want to believe."
"The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing."
"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."
"Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit."
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
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"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."
"It is often easier to believe than to doubt."
"The truth may hurt for a little while but a lie hurts forever."
"Truth never damages a cause that is just."
"People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough they eventually come to believe it."
"A half-truth is a whole lie."
