Quotes About Lies

Are you a journalist?" "I'm a doctor." "Good. We need doctors, Wallahi ." Sadoon scowled. "Journalists only tell lies and smuggle carpets.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

President Trump is, some ways, the personification of a new Bolshevism of the Right, where the ends justify the means and acceptable tactics include lies and smears and the exploitation of what Lenin called 'useful idiots.'

If I utter one lie, I'll have to remember it the next time someone asks me about it. It's far simpler to state the truth.

Paralysis in decision-making breeds frustration and contempt from the electorate, and provides the perfect seedbed for demagogues who fill the vacuum with populist simplicities, hatred of opposition and lies.

When he spoke, he illuminated a truth I had always yearned for and yet always run from. I am known as an authority on the holy texts, and yet when he spoke, I realized I knew nothing. And what I did know, I had cloaked in my own selfish interpretations. In so doing, I had turned the truth into lies.

I should be impressed?' he commented finally. 'World renowned for foul works and mayhem, whether I practise such doctrine, or not? A shame. Shown such vulgar taste, what man with a mind would scarcely wallow to seek further clarity. Sweet faith, bliss, and bathos, it's an execrable drama. Never mind that the theological concepts are glorified platitudes sprung out of lies.

My heart perceived wildernesses of contradictions and impossible truths and mystical lies.

Cuando estalló el caso Marco, mucha gente dedujo que, dado que Marco había mentido sobre su estancia en el campo de Flossenbürg, había mentido sobre todo lo demás. Es una deducción errónea, que delata una ignorancia espectacular sobre la naturaleza de las buenas mentiras y los buenos mentirosos: los buenos mentirosos no sólo trafican con mentiras, sino también con verdades, y las grandes mentiras se fabrican con pequeñas verdades;

Así son siempre las leyendas, ¿no? Una mezcla de verdades y mentiras. Sólo que, si sumas una verdad y una mentira, el resultado es siempre una mentira.

empecé a decirme que una buena mentira no es una mentira pura, exenta, que una mentira pura es una mentira inverosímil, que, para que sea verosímil, una mentira tiene que construirse en parte con verdades, y

O era su pertenencia a la UJA la pequeña verdad con que Marco había amasado las mentiras de su primera posguerra —la minúscula poesía épica con que había intentado teñir la prosa general de su vida—, del mismo modo que su estancia en el frente del Segre era la pequeña verdad con que había amasado sus mentiras de la guerra?

los buenos mentirosos no sólo trafican con mentiras, sino también con verdades, y las grandes mentiras se fabrican con pequeñas verdades;

asked. "They lie." "Ah. Frauds.

El poeta es un mentiroso que siempre dice la verdad.

I have always preferred mythology to history. Because history is made up of truths which eventually turn into lies. Mythology is made up of lies that eventually become truths.

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

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.

If you want to rip the heart out of a democracy, you go after the facts. That's what modern authoritarians do. You lie. All the time. Then, you say it's your opponents and the journalists who lie.

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.

Let me fall out of a window with confetti in my hair deal out jacks or better on a blanket by the stairs I'll tell you all my secrets but I'll lie about my past and send me off to bed forevermore

42.9% of all statistics are made up on the spot.