Truth And Lies Quotes

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

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Real, Lying, People

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• One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear.

  Cal Thomas

  Lying, Believe, People

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• The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

  Ann Landers

  Positive, Witty, Truth

  Ann Landers (1996). “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

  Stephen King

  Trust, Liars, Lying

  Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Tad Williams

  Honesty, Fear, Lying

  Tad Williams (1994). “To Green Angel Tower”, p.667, Penguin

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• Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.318, Harvard University Press

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• If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

  Adolf Hitler

  Truth, Lying, Liars

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• Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Truth, Intelligent, Greatness

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• A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Honesty, Lying, Care

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• The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Respect, Lying, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.582, e-artnow

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• I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relationship, Trust, Cheating

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• Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lying, Half, Newspapers

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• The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

  James A. Garfield

  Teacher, Encouragement, Strong Women

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• The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Lying, Race

  Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls”, Mjf Books

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  Who lies for you will lie against you.

  John Locke

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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

  Denis Diderot

  Inspirational, Trust, Truth

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1821.

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• The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

  Unknown

  Enemy, German History, Nazism

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• A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trust, Travel, Truth

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• If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.

  Isa Blagden

  Truth, Lying, Interesting

  "The crown of a life". Book by Isa Blagden, 1869.

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• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

  Austin O'Malley

  Truth, Honesty, Liars

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  People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Morning, Clever, War

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• The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

  John F. Kennedy

  Trust, Peace, Fear

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.471, Best Books on

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  All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Truth, Science

  "Angels in the workplace: stories and inspirations for creating a new world of work". Book by Melissa Giovagnoli, 1999.

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• When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.

  Charles Churchill

  Truth, Lying, Believe

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.89

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