Quotes About Lie

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

The truth may hurt ... but it's the lie that leaves a scar.

To lie is to erect a boundary between the truth we are living and the perception others have of us.

Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.

Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.

Art is the lie that helps us to see the truth.

Such a lie becomes beneficial and favourable that favours your interests; stay realistic about that reality.

The false love does not succeed as like the lie. People who do that practice are severely mentally ill and make others also such patients.

The truth is that a lie is also a truth.

Truth builds the bridge of trust; whereas, lie breaks it.

He asked if I had liked the book in English. I wondered whether to lie. "No," I said. "Maybe I should read it again." "Uh-huh," Ivan said. "So that's how it works for you?" "How what works?" "You read a book and don't like it, and then you read it again?

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

A learned person underrates own intelligence & overvalues others importance, so remains in public largely shy; the foolish people overrate own importance & undervalue others intelligence, so often publicly lie.

If you hook up a politician to a lie detector machine, the shrapnel could kill everyone in the room.

Immigrants contribute more than they take. It is a lie that they take public benefits, because they don't qualify for just about every benefit.

Now I will bop my head to gangsta music - I'm not going to lie.

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.

If the morality of thou shalt not lie is rejected, the sense for truth will have to legitimize itself before another tribunal:— as a means of the preservation of man, as will to power.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than truth -- her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance of beauty.

The pure soul is a pure lie. So long as the priest, that professional denier, calumniator and poisoner of life, is accepted as a higher variety of man, there can be no answer to the question, What is truth? Truth has already been stood on its head when the obvious attorney of mere emptiness is mistaken for its representative.

We hate others, and call it "zeal"; we flatter others because of what they can do for us, and call it "love"; we lie to them, and call it "tact.