Quotes About Distrust

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!

For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.

Everything was believed except the truth.

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.

Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.

Most people would assume, as I do, that the courtroom is a place for the truth, but it's not with our corrupt judges today - and I'm talking about the corrupt ones on the court of appeals.

The stupid thing I incorrectly believed for a long time is that I believed for a long time that some politicians could sometimes tell the truth.

The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?

The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.

I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .

Jealousy knows more than truth does.

The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.

That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.

For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.