Lies Quotes - Page 4

In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Khaled Hosseini

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Al Pacino

We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark.

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

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