Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Liars, Lying, Writing

  "TIME" Magazine, July 18, 1983.

• It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Lying, Men, Helping

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004). “Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the Letter Writer”

• Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul, without feelings. However, anyone who has ever lived with an animal-be it a dog, a bird, or even a mouse-knows that this theory is a brazen lie, invented to justify cruelty.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Religious, Dog, Lying

• I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea that the Universe is a physical or chemical accident, a result of blind evolution. Even though I learned to recognize the lies, the clichés and the idolatries of the human mind, I still cling to some truths which I think all of us might accept some day.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Lying, Believe, Thinking

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

• Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Lying, Men, Want

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