Truth Quotes - Page 33

If I say I'll help you I'll help you. If I say I'll kill you I'll kill you. Everything else is ripples of maybe.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

People lie. Promises are broken. A

To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception

Agatha Christie

But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.

George Horace Lorimer

A lie is the most sacred private property on Earth. Governments claim it is not theirs, and that their critics are the rightful owners.

Gustavo Gus Larsen

Truthful hearts have clear blue skies permanently hidden and bound to thrive from the accusing mists of doubts and lies." ~ Angelica Hopes~ an excerpt from If I Could Tell You

Mists may blur vision, Doubts to lies are heavy mists, Truth clears for all ways." ~ Angelica Hopes, Haikuan excerpt from If I Could Tell You

Never tell an unnecessary lie; the truth has great authority. The cleverest murders have been caught, not because they told the one essential lie, but because they continued to lie about unimportant detail when the truth could have done them no harm.

Sometime a #lie is more #honest than the #truth . At least that lie will guide you to the #path you really believe TO walk" It tells , who U R

A story is just a convoluted lie...with some hidden truths.

Christian Clason

The truth you speak doth lack some gentlenessAnd time to speak it in. You rub the soreWhen you should bring the plaster.

William Shakespeare

When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger.

We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.

Shannon L. Alder

Brandon was like a God in Healy, and I guess I was like God's best friend.

Jennifer Mathieu

What are you suggesting I do Ralph?’‘I’m suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads is trouble.’“Sometimes that’s the only place telling the truth get you, too.

When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence.

I better understood the little lies that liquor told, lifting spirits and drowning sorrows while withholding the whole truth--that, in the end, it is the spirit in peril of drowning. Sorrows have gills.

Charles M. Blow

It is not enough to speak but to speak truth

William Shakespeare

I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day.

It is not your fault you believe what your parents tell you. It is theirs for telling you unbelievable things. -- ME

Ruby knew then that a lie could only control a person if they believed it.

I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little."He meant a liar.

Indeed, to this day, I think if you blame everything on the government, you're not just wrong, you're being reckless. It's as silly as blaming everything on the Freemasons, or the Illuminati, or insert-bad-guy-here. But I do believe that someone must ask the hard questions, especially of our elected officials as well as powerful men who become members of so-called secret societies. Remember: Governments don't lie. People lie. And if you want the real story, you need to find out more about those people.

A lie is my attempt to tamper with the truth so that I need not face the truth. Yet as shrewd as I think myself to be, I would be wise to understand that God designed truth as ultimately tamper-proof.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The truth will set you free, its the little white lies that'll save your ass.

James Patterson

In India we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths.

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat, but eventually the mat will rise very high with Time — forcing it to reveal all the truths it conceals.

Lies can be formed from truth, but truth cannot be formed from lies.

It is more disgraceful for a king to tell lies than anyone else.

Arrian

The lies they've convinced their eyes that they're seeing, will not mar the truth in my lens.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place.

Hammer the lies! Nail the truth." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You

The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they don’t really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie.

I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies.

A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated.

Pretension, dear love, does not buy truth into lies, nor alter its course.

Sreesha Divakaran

Somehow, it bothered her watching Garth’s charm directed so effectively at another. Could he convince her so easily of an untruth?

I would rather suffer with truth than celebrate with lies.

A lie set down on paper in wet ink becomes the truth when dry.

Manhattan (writer)

His eyebrows raised. "And you said demons didn't know love."Guido's laugh was harsh. "Ahh, but haven't you learned by now, bestia? Demons may not be able to lie, but we never tell the truth.

Heather R. Blair

The world is held together by lies. When I paint, I'm searching for the truth between them, but I'm no better at this than anyone else. Worse, probably.

Gareth P. Jones

The important thing is not to lie to yourself. He who lies to himself and listens to his own lies reaches a state in which he no longer recognizes truth either in himself or in others, and so he ceases to respect both himself and others. Having ceased to respect everyone, he stops loving, and then, in the absence of love, in order to occupy and divert himself, he abandons himself to passions and the gratification of coarse pleasures until his vices bring him down to the level of bestiality, and all on account of his being constantly false both to himself and to others.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Now, it’s been a while since I had to tell this, so a few of the finer points may not connect as well as they should, but the story will bear the weight. That’s the beauty of the truth: put all together, it makes sense even if the parts might not.

Thomm Quackenbush

He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.

There was no better way to sell a lie, she knew, than to sprinkle it with truth.

Whenever someone introduces themselves as a Master or a Guru, I immediately wonder…If those are the lies they tell themselves, what lies will they tell me?

We have been having a Ménage à trois with the lies that others told us and the lies we tell ourselves for so long that we have convinced ourselves that it is normalcy. When we begin to read, hear or even see truth our minds reject it and our minds’ eye closes to what we view as temptation; as if we would be cheating on our trio so instead we cheat ourselves out of knowledge and growth.

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.

Today's truth will be tomorrow's lie and you will be left questioning your own sanity.

Michael R. Fletcher

She isn’t acting hurt, she is acting angry,” Jared said, feeling frustrated himself.“I know, Jared, I know. Right now, she has a distorted view of herself and the world. The only way to effectively combat a lie is with the truth.

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

We don't lie to protect the other person. We lie to protect ourselves from the consequences. We lie because we don't want to deal with our own feelings. We lie because we don't want things to change. Not by our hand. So a wall starts to build.

Elisa Marie Hopkins

Is this how it is with lies? The first one comes hard, the second one easier, until they slip off your tongue easier than truths - maybe because they are easier than truths.

Disinformation is distinguished from misinformation in that it is intentionally fraudulent.

Ellen P. Lacter

People don't want the truth,' he says, waving a hand at the streets around us. 'They want better-quality lies. High definition lies on fifty-inch screens.

You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under the bullshit, but you never look! That's what I hate most about this fucking city-- Lies are news and truth is obsolete!

I don’t know how a reporter would ever understand a politician. Your job is supposed to be about finding the truth and enlightening people. Right? A politician’s job is about hiding the truth and fooling people. Right? You want us to be better informed so we get smarter. They think we’re dumb and it’s to their advantage to keep us that way.

Dan Groat

THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE, LIES WILL PUT YOU INTO PRISON

Nelson M. Lubao

How do we keep convincing young people to die in fights they didn’t start for reasons we’re too devious to tell the truth about? It’s way too easy for governments to spend other people’s blood. Maybe only the sons and daughters of those who declare the wars should be allowed to fight and die.

Dan Groat

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