Quotes About Lies

This makes Satan not only father of lies, but father of all so-called Illuminati or "enlightened ones" peddling freedom and salvation through science rather than through the Redeemer who tells us, "Without Me, you can do nothing!" (John 15:5).

A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.

Human beings tend to be conservative, so if you lie, you'll probably be closer to the truth.

Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.

Wouldn't it be simply marvellous if he were to hang for his lies and calumnies against me--the very fate he had in mind for me?

The absolute truth is one for an infinity of possible relative truths which lie.

For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth.

The motive force of history is truth and not lies.

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Deliverance from believing lies must come from believing truth.

You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.

It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.

A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.