Quotes About Lies

Hmmmm Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

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.

But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.

When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It's called vetting. Printing the truth about liberals - that's called "swift-boating."

Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

It's easier to remember your lies if they're close to the truth.

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.

No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

In any case, to the extent that the media is dedicated to exposing lies and reporting the truth, it is indeed the opposition party to people like Bannon.