700 Best Quotes About People Who Lie And Lying (2023)
1. “Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.” – Ice Cube
2. “It is error alone which needs the support of the government. Truth can stand by itself.” – Thomas Jefferson
3. Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end. – Lauren DeStefano
4. “Don’t talk when your mouth is full of lies.”
5. “Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbed.” –Anton Chekhov
6. “I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.” – Muhammad Ali7. “I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos – in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever – was infinitely more comforting than the truth.”
8. “A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.” — Daniel Wallace
9. “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” –Stephen King10. “The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it.”
11. “There’s more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
12. My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'
13. He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. – Charles Peguy
14. “He gave me the only answer he could—that history proved time and again it was difficult to change what people believed as truth.”
15. “Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.” – Anonymous
16. “Apologies require taking full responsibility. No half-truths, no partial admissions, no rationalizations, no finger-pointing, and no justifications belong in any apology.” – Cathy Burnham Martin17. “You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.” – Anne Holm
18. “There are no ‘perfect liars’ in the world; there are only ‘perfect believers’ who believe in even the most obvious lies!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
19. If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway. – Christine Feehan
20. “It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.” – Werner Heisenberg
21. ″‘It is a lie! it is a lie! She is not beautiful! There is more charm in my little finger than in her whole body.‘”
22. “What can God do for a liar who refuses to repent? Can the Lord save him? He can’t claim salvation. Baptizing him in water will not settle the trouble unless you keep him under.” ~ J. Golden Kimball
23. I am sick of liars. Please stop spreading filth and lies about my wife, my kids and me. The world is better off not interacting with you anymore.
24. “A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.”
25. She believed she could, so she did.
26. “Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.” -Cassandra Clare
27. “Hey, curb the perve or the bottle walks.”
28. “Remember the person you’re supposed to be, and remember well…You are pretending to be raised Red, but you’re Silver by blood. You are now Red in the head, Silver in the heart….From now until the end of your days, you must lie. Your life depends on it, little lightning girl.”
29. “When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.” – Robin Hobb
30. In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.
31. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
32. “To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn’t say anything about it. Then the liar isn’t sure which lies are compromised.” – Jesse Ball
33. “Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.” – Christian Nestell Bovee
34. “A lie… is often the mirror image of the truth; by examining it carefully, you can reconstruct the fact that lie was designed to conceal.“
35. Your mind is a powerful thing. When You fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.
36. “There are no ‘perfect liars’ in the world; there are only ‘perfect believers’ who believe in even the most obvious lies!” –Mehmet Murat Ildan
37. “He, of course, is a liar, but that doesn’t really matter because if you know liars are liars, it comes to the same thing.” – Agatha Christie
38. “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
39. “The sociopathic liar commonly is good at lying, since he or she conceals the lies under a veneer of charm and an ability to quickly craft explanations to deflect any suspicions that they may be lying.” – Gini Graham Scott
40. God has placed you where you’re at in this very moment for a reason, remember that and trust he is working everything out!
41. “Truth exists; only lies are invented.” – Georges Braque
42. “Be careful… not all are what they seem. Some people pretend to be the beach, but they’re actually quicksand.” ― Steve Maraboli
43. “Self-lies are false friends we look to for comfort and protection, and for a short time, they may make us feel better, but we can only keep the truth at bay for so long.” – Susan Forward
44. “Truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.” —Nadine Gordimer, writer, activist, and Nobel laureate
45. “People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it’s served up.” —George R.R. Martin, author
46. “Only fools and liars claim to know everything because the fool thinks all that he knows is everything and the liar knows there is no sufficient data to know everything” ― Nyona Matende
47. “Someone said there’s no such thing as an honest man. He was probably a con man.” – Frank W. Abagnale
48. Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you. - Stephanie Klein
49. “Warns, lies, liars, and mysteries everything in one place. What’s more awesome than that??? Better check out Blindspot!” ― Deyth Banger
50. “If he is old enough to ask the question he is old enough to receive true answers. I am not putting the thoughts into his head, but helping him unfold those already there. These children are wiser than we are...”
51. “The elections were faked and they believe the results.”
52. “I’m not upset that you lied to me. I’m upset that from now on, I can’t believe you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
53. “I’d rather be hated for who I am, rather than loved for who I am not.” – Kurt Cobain
54. I will never lie to you again. I will never cause you any more pain. From now on I will be extremely cautious because our friendship is too precious. Please forgive me.
55. “Lie until even you believe it. That’s the real secret of lying.” – Holly Black
56. ‘Just tell the truth,’ Mom said. ‘That’s simple enough.‘”
57. I'm sorry what language are you speaking?
58. “Trust and truth are two pillars of a strong relationship. If you don’t trust a person, you won’t speak the truth and if you don’t say the truth, the person won’t trust you.” – Unknown
59. “Our biggest fear is not in expressing the truth but that we will be attacked or belittled because of our truth.” —Kelli Wilson, organizer and entrepreneur, in The Clutter Breakthrough: Your Five-Step Solution to Freedom from Clutter Forever
60. “Liars are always ready to take oaths.”
61. ‘By being better than other people,’ said Papa. For instance, the Nazis say that Jews are dishonest. So it’s not enough for us to be as honest as anyone else. We have to be more honest.‘”
62. And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.
63. “I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.”
64. “Not all compulsive liars suffer from a psychiatric illness. They commonly lie to gain admiration, popularity, control, and the ability to manipulate others to compensate for low self-esteem. They seek to disguise failure by making others feel responsible or by casting the blame on someone else.” – Gini Graham Scott
65. She is clothed with strength and dignity; She can laugh at the days to come.
66. “Thieves and liars kill indirectly, unintentionally, and with no other weapon than their tongues and malice.”
67. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Arthur Conan Doyle
68. “Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.” – Warren Wiersbe
69. “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” —Buddha
70. “To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn't say anything about it. Then the liar isn't sure which lies are compromised.”
71. “The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.” —W. Somerset Maugham, writer. Speaking of believing, do you believe in karma? These karma quotes might make you a believer!
72. “A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can’t have honor if you’re a liar. There is no honor in lying.” ― Jesse Ventura
73. Don’t cry over the past, it’s gone. Don’t stress about the future, it hasn’t arrived. I live in the present and make it beautiful.
74. “I know that my plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth?”
75. “We learned about honesty and integrity—that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.” —Michelle Obama, former First Lady. Michelle Obama offers more of her wisdom in her books Becoming and The Light We Carry. We couldn’t have said it better ourselves in these success quotes.
76. “A lie. That’s a flat-out lie. Funny how one lie leads to another and before you know it, your whole life can be a lie.”
77. “The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars, and the selfish hide in high places.” ~ Bryant H. McGill
78. “In a scene where nobody with any ambition is really what he appears to be, there’s not much risk in acting like a king-hell freak.” – Hunter S. Thompson
79. The true mark of maturity is when somebody hurts you and you try to understand their situation instead of trying to hurt them back.
80. “Lies sound like facts to those who’ve been conditioned to misrecognize the truth.”
81. “Truth is not for comfort – it’s for liberation. It’s not a medicine – it’s a killer.” – Sadhguru
82. ″‘Your grandmother has caught a cold, grand children, and it is dark and windy out here. Quickly open up, and let your Po Po come in,’ the cunning wolf said.
83. “All liars … lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.” ― Aminatta Forna
84. “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.” – George Carlin
85. When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
86. “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” – Soren Kierkegaard
87. No one believes a liar. Even when she’s telling the truth. – Sara Shepard
88. I am sick of liars. I think we all are. It is time for us to be honest because it’s been shown over and over that we’re better off when we tell the truth.
89. “Lies are a temporary solution to a permanent problem.”
90. “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” – W. Clement Stone
91. “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.” – Albert Einstein
92. ‘Sacrifice is a rather dramatic way of putting it. What’s done is for their good as well as ours.‘”
93. “I can handle the truth. It’s the lies that kill me.” – Unknown
94. “If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.” – W. Somerset Maugham
95. “Friends share secrets. That’s what keeps us close.”
96. Running is about acceptance-of yourself and others. - Author: Bart Yasso
97. “If you asked twenty good men today what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love. You see what has happened?”
98. “Cheating and lying aren’t struggles,
99. “Take a deep breath. It’s been proven to prevent explosions in small women.”
100. “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” – Winston Churchill
101. Thoughtless. Careless. Insensitive. I’m sure you could add more words to describe me to that list, friend. I’m sorry for not considering your feelings and for the stupid lies I told you.
102. “Matilda told such Dreadful Lies,
103. “Every time you lie, it brings me a little closer to goodbye.”
104. “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.” —Laozi, ancient philosopher
105. “All liars … lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.” ~ Aminatta Forna
106. “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” – Adolf Hitler
107. “Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.” – Steve Maraboli
108. “Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.” – Irvin D. Yalom
109. Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. - Thomas Jefferson
110. “There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.”
111. “A lie is like a snowball; it starts off small and then grows and grows until a point where it gets so big it falls apart and then the truth is discovered.” – Chris Hughes
112. “The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.” – Ayn Rand
113. “Oft in lies truth is hidden.”
114. “The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.” — Randal Marlin
115. The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. – Terry Pratchett
116. “Stand for what is right even if that means standing alone.”
117. “I am ignorant of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.” – Kahlil Gibran
118. “A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.” – William Shenstone
119. “You know they’ll try to kill you if you actually get to the bottom of everything.”
120. “Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.” – Benjamin E. Mays
121. Your anxiety is lying to you.
122. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on
123. ‘Po Po!’ Shang said. ‘Our mother has gone to visit you!‘”
124. “I don’t degrade anyone, but a liar and a person who doesn’t keep his or her words has not any value in my eyes.” – Ehsan Sehgal
125. You hate when people see you cry because you want to be that strong girl. At the same time, though, you hate how nobody notices how torn apart and broken you are.
126. “Trump came to believe he understood everything about the media—who you need to know, what pretense you need to maintain, what information you could profitably trade, what lies you might tell, what lies the media expected you to tell. ”
127. Being the other women doesn't make you win. It makes you lose ... your self esteem, your character, your values. You didn't get love, you gained lies, deceit and stolen affections which didn't belong to you.
128. “I bow down to and take refuge in the sacred teachings, including the doctrines of the ultimate truth, quiescent and desireless, the irreversible path of the three vehicles, and the transmissions, esoteric instructions, and treatises of the transmitted precepts and treasures.”
129. “As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.” – Thomas Jefferson
130. Don’t waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.
131. “I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.”
132. “He, of course, is a liar, but that doesn’t really matter because, if you know liars are liars, it comes to the same thing.”
133. “There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.” – Alice Cary
134. “The truthful man is usually a liar.” – Alfred Nobel
135. “The easiest lies to tell are the true ones.”
136. “In politics, you learn how to say A mean to say B, in wisdom you learn how to say A and keep saying that.” – Auliq Ice
137. “‘What do you hate most?’ he asks.
138. “In actuality, misery is a moment of suffering allowed to become everything. So, when feeling miserable, we must look wider than what hurts. When feeling a splinter, we must, while trying to remove it, remember there is a body that is not splinter, and a spirit that is not splinter, and a world that is not splinter.”
139. “I remember a text that hung in my nursery as a child. ‘Be sure thy sin will find thee out.’ It’s very true, that.”
140. “Never lie to someone who trusts you. Never trust someone who lies to you.”
141. “We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.” ― Kamand Kojouri
142. “Sometimes your mind and your heart want different things, and you know your heart is a liar.” ― Surya Raj
143. “I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots.”
144. “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, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.”
145. “Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.”
146. “Do all maesters lie so poorly? I told Varys that I was giving Prince Doran my nephew Tommen to foster. I told Littlefinger that I planned to wed Myrcella to Lord Robert of the Eyrie. I told no one that I had offered Myrcella to the Dornish … that truth was only in the letter I entrusted to you.”
147. “The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than any one.”
148. “There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
149. “Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.” – Walter Darby Bannard
150. “Could all be lies. Could all be part of revenge scheme, planned during his decade behind bars. But if true, then what? […] Never mind. Answers soon. Nothing is insoluble.”
151. “Mom pointed her chopsticks at me. ‘You see?’ she said. ‘Right there. That’s exactly what I’m saying. You’re way too easily embarrassed. Your father and I are who we are. Accept it.’
152. Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. – Dorothy Allison
153. “I’m just a simple guy. I love beer, sex, and hockey. I hate liars, Sting, and art that doesn’t have people in it.” – Luke Almeida
154. “If pregnant girls were sinner, what were liars called?”
155. “Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
156. “The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.”
157. “Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creatio.” – Michael Jackson
158. “My answer is simply, that it is because I am not an adversary of democracy, that I have sought to speak of democracy in all sincerity. Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends: for this reason I have spoken it.”
159. “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” -Benjamin Franklin
160. “Just be honest with me or stay away from me. It’s not that difficult.”
161. I made a terrible mistake when I lied to you. Please forgive me so we can be normal again.
162. “Hurt me with the truth but never comfort me with a lie.”
163. Liars are always ready to take oaths. – Vittorio Alfieri
164. “Devotion requires a willingness, openness and readiness to embrace the truth. It is a process of opening yourself to receive what already is. God’s goodness and love already exist. God’s love leads us to the truth.” – Iyanla Vanzant
165. “Fortunately there have always been men whose larger minds could adapt themselves to the truth instead of narrowing the truth to them.” – Thomas Wentworth Higginson
166. “The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.” –Thomas Sowell
167. “There’s an old saying that if a lie is told often enough, it becomes the truth. Actually, it doesn’t. What happens is that people simply start believing that it’s true.” – Bailey Jackson
168. When someone else’s happiness is your happiness that is love.
169. ‘Ownership,’ he says. ‘When you leave me, forget me.’”
170. “Our duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.” – Swami Vivekananda
171. “I wasn’t sure which was worse – to know you were a liar or to believe your own bullshit.”
172. “Truth never hides; yet how hard to find.” – James Lendall Basford
173. “[I]t was better to know the worst than to wonder.”
174. “It is a sad regret to have searched for the truth and settled for an answer.” – Robert Brault
175. ″‘But it was all lies,’ whispered Mrs. Povey, there being no polite way to put it.
176. “The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.” – Aristotle
177. “Be careful who you pretend to be. You might forget who you are.” – Anonymous
178. “Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you’ve believed in all your life aren’t true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.”
179. The moment when you do a Math problem and your answer isn’t even one of the choices.
180. You are my sun, my moon, and all of my stars.
181. “The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others but from his own soul.” – Edward Morgan Forster
182. The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up. – Robert A. Heinlein
183. “I have 0 respect for liars.”
184. “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” – William Shakespeare
185. “LIBERTY!186. “Watch your thoughts. Every thought accepted as true is sent by your brain to your solar plexus – your abdominal brain – and is brought into your world as a reality.”
187. “A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.” – John Calvin
188. “But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.”
189. When a man loves a woman, he will be concerned about spending more time with her than even his wealth. He will be scared of cheating because cheating a woman you love is more like cheating yourself. Imagine you spending money on two women, sharing time between two women, and lying to two women? Sleeping with two women, you think that is fun? You are just cheating yourself, trust me.
190. ‘And what am I supposed to tell people about my parents?’
191. “The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our very foundation.”
192. I am sick of liars, who are not honest with themselves, and cannot be honest with others. I am frustrated when someone tells me something about themselves that is a lie. I feel like they lied to me when they told me the lie because they deceived me.
193. “Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.” —Benjamin E. Mays, minister and civil rights activist
194. “Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.” – Michael Jackson
195. I am sick of the lies that you’re telling me. Day after day, you keep telling me them, but I know all about you and your weakness for other women. I know how easy it is for you to lie and manipulate people in order to get what you want—even if that means destroying our relationship so that other people won’t find out about your cheating.
196. I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. – Michel de Montaigne
197. “The worst thing about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.”
198. I never lie,” I said offhand. “At least not to those I don’t love. – Anne Rice
199. It’s os amazing when someone comes to your life expecting nothing our of it but suddenly there right in front of you is everything you ever need.
200. “I don’t tolerate liars. I’m a nice person, not a stupid one.” – Anonymous
201. “People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”
202. I am stunned by how badly I screwed up. I’m so sorry for lying and losing your trust.
203. “Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.” – John Lennon
204. “No matter how you hope, no matter how you try, you can’t make truth out of a lie.”
205. “Falling in love with you will be my life’s biggest regret, I will never forgive and forget. You are a cheater and a dirty liar, I will hate you forever and ever.”
206. ‘How can we?’ asked Max.
207. “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.” – Elvis Presley
208. “One way or the other, I have a very valuable piece of information. And if they know I have it, they might do something to alter the force field so I can’t see the aberration anymore. So I lie.”
209. The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. - Flannery O'Connor
210. “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Mark Twain
211. “When I was at my most lonely and unhappy and angry place, you loved me.”
212. You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
213. What do call a lion that always lies?
214. “Spence, the last thing I want to do is discuss my feelings over a tub of Chunky Monkey.”
215. “I made it the mantra of those days; when I paused before yet another series of switchbacks or skidded down knee-jarring slopes, when patches of flesh peeled off my feet along with my socks, when I lay alone and lonely in my tent at night I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me?
216. “I’ll never understand it—why people find the truth more shocking than lies.”
217. “Bands that say they don’t care about how their records sell are liars.” –Brandon Flowers
218. “Learn what is true in order to do what is right.” —Thomas Huxley, biologist and anthropologist
219. “I wasn’t a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot. I was an imposter...”
220. Learn what is true in order to do what is right. - Thomas Huxley
221. I am very cautious of people whose actions don't match their words.
222. “What’s done cannot be undone.”
223. “He doesn’t know what the truth means, so he does not even know how he lies. ”
224. “Sorry, sarcasm is my brain’s self-defense mechanism for whenever I’m about to be murdered.” — Ezra
225. ″‘A Finder of Occasions?’ I asked, and the stranger replied, ‘Someone who lies in wait until the opportunity is afforded to do harm or wreak havoc...without leaving a trace behind.‘”
226. I am sick of liars. I am sick of all the lies that have been told to other people and they believe them. I am sick of people speaking for others without their permission, taking ownership of something someone else has done or just flat-out not doing what they should be doing.
227. There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
228. “People wears a mask of lie so they look attractive , so be careful”
229. Sometimes you meet a person and you just click — you’re comfortable with them, like you’ve known them you whole life, and you don’t have to pretend to be anyone or anything.
230. “Maybe it’s being alive that makes them lie, and being almost not alive makes me sort of accidentally truthful”
231. Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. - Ismail Haniyeh
232. I’d rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie. – Ana Monnar
233. “A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can’t have honor if you’re a liar. There is no honour in lying.” –Jesse Ventura
234. . It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.
235. “Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.”
236. “A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.” ~ Mark Twain
237. You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life.
238. I love you past the moon and the stars, the planets, and the sun wrapped around everything times twenty million, bajillion times infinity! That’s how much I love you.
239. “A coward talks to everyone but YOU.” ― Shannon L. Alder
240. “—Corpus Domini nostri. Could it be? He knelt there sinless and timid: and he would hold upon his tongue the host and God would enter his purified body.—In vitam eternam. Amen. Another life! A life of grace and virtue and happiness! It was true. It was not a dream from which he would wake. The past was past.—Corpus Domini nostri. The ciborium had come to him.”
241. “Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him?”
242. Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they’re honest about everything. – Chuck Klosterman
243. Don’t give up now.
244. One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths. – Al David
245. “Not that it mattered though. The truth seldom ever did in the face of a juicy lie.”
246. “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson, former U.S. president
247. “The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.” – James A. Garfield
248. “You can say blind, Spencer. It’s OK. It’s not a dirty word.” — Jenna
249. “People wear a mask of a lie, so they look attractive, so be careful.” ― Muhammad Saqib
250. I am sick of the lies. People always say that you only get one life to live, but I think it should be the opposite way around. We get to live many lives, and this is just one in which I refuse to accept things as they are.
251. “JUROR #9: No. He wouldn’t really lie. But perhaps he made himself believe he heard those words and recognized the boy’s face.”
252. It’s difficult to honest with others when you continue lying to yourself. – Carlos Wallace
253. “When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and their relationships with others by undermining the trust they have in their ability to succeed and in their ability to be true.”
254. The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them. – Elena Gorokhova
255. “When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.” – William Blake
256. “Truth, truth.”
257. “Miro pondered what she was thinking. Did she suspect that she would die before this incident was over? Has she seen through Artkin’s lies, even though he lied to skillfully?”
258. “I love listening to lies when I know the truth.”
259. “Then he said, ‘I did it for your good, Christopher. Honestly I did. I never meant to lie.‘”
260. “A liar is always lavish of oaths.”
261. I am sick of people who lie and say they love me. I don’t want to hear the word ‘sorry’ anymore. Do you know what it’s called when someone says sorry but doesn’t change anything? It’s called an excuse.
262. “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.”
263. “Telling a truth is not only a matter of character, but is also a matter of appreciating factual situations and representing them without bias.” – M. K. Soni
264. I miss you every moment of every day. It was very immature of me to hurt you like that and tell you lies. I am extremely sorry for hurting you with my words. I love you so much.
265. “Oh, how hard it is to be the only one who knows the truth!”
266. “By innocence I swear, and by my youth,
267. “Never lie to the person you love. Its not worth it and they don’t deserve it.”
268. “A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.” – Alfred Tennyson
269. Our lie is like a cancer that’s spread to every single area of our lives. – Simone Elkeles
270. “Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.” – George R.R. Martin
271. “I’m not saying it because I’m sweet. I’m saying it because I love you now and I always have. More than you can imagine.”
272. “To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth – not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.” – Debbie Ford
273. “To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.” – John Locke
274. You don't have to have sex to be a cheater.
275. “Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.” — Sissela Bok
276. “Liars, when they speak the truth, are not believed.” ~ Aristotle
277. “If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?”
278. I'm just a simple guy. I love beer, sex, and hockey. I hate liars, Sting, and art that doesn't have people in it. - Luke Almeida - Author: Kate Meader
279. There is no excuse for the lies. I am so sorry.
280. “Presently he said, frowning more than ever, ‘So you were a real princess all the time. Amy, you are a little fibber! And for two pins,” said Peregrine, “I’d give you a good hard spanking!’
281. “I’m not upset that you lied to me. I’m upset for knowing the truth already.” – Unknown
282. “Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?
283. “Sometimes, Miss Jarmond, it’s not easy to bring back the past. There are unpleasant surprises. The truth is harder than ignorance.”
284. “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.”
285. “On the mountains of truth, you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorro.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
286. . . . speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we have. Oprah Winfrey
287. “Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.” – Joe Abercrombie
288. The truth really is ‘the light of the world. —Brad Blanton, author and psychotherapist, in Radical Honesty
289. “Adding more bull to bull yields bigger bull.” ― Cathy Burnham Martin
290. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. - Marcus Aurelius
291. “You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.” –Aristippus
292. “I’m telling tales, my dear, not lies. Lies are mean things, and tales are meant to entertain.”
293. “Every day there are countless men and women who are accused of crimes they didn’t commit. These false accusations have not only landed them behind bars, but have also landed them on the registered sex offenders list. Those who don’t end up behind bars are still confined to a sort of emotional prison, after having lost their jobs, their life’s savings, and their families, all because of someone’s malicious lies. These incidents dramatically illustrate the nightmarish effect that lying can have on an innocent person’s life. This is why it is essential for us to know all the signs of a liar. Lies can cause irreparable damage, whether they are motivated by jealousy, greed, or pure malice.” – Lillian Glass
294. I am sick of liars. I refuse to be lied to by those who think they are above me and can get away with it. Liars need to be exposed for their deceitful ways.
295. ″‘That may be true,’ said Reason gravely, ‘but you had the courage to try.‘”
296. The only thing worse than a liar is a liar who is also a hypocrite.
297. “Liars need to have good memories.” ~ Algernon Sidney
298. “Once you lose my trust, it’s very hard to earn it back. I hate liars, they are such repeat offenders.”
299. “A lie cannot live.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
300. “Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty, and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.” – Khalil Gibran
301. “A liar often smiles subtly while telling a lie. It’s an unconscious expression of his delight in getting away with a whopper.” – Pamela Meyer
302. The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie. – Ann Landers
303. “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” – Oscar Wilde
304. “Once you know some things, you can’t unknow them.” – 0 Alice Hoffman
305. “The truth rises to the surface like oil on water.” – A Slovak Proverb
306. “Our biggest fear is not in expressing the truth but that we will be attacked or belittled because of our truth.” -Kelli Wilson
307. “I don't hate liars. I just disrespect them, because they disrespect themselves in the first place.”
308. “Mean people don’t bother me. Mean people who disguise themselves as nice people bother me a lot.” – Cindy Cummings Johnson
309. “Error is not always the result of a want of education, but often a lack of power to comprehend the truth.” – James Lendall Basford
310. “Imagination can’t create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions. So when we think we’ve escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it’s really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable.”
311. “There’s no point in telling all the lies I’m telling you, cause baby all we got is everything and nothing” -5 Seconds of Summer
312. Let your faith be bigger than your fear.
313. “I’m so tired of: Fake friends, drama, liars, being ignored, getting hurt.”
314. Being sick of liars and the lies they tell is a normal thing. We see it all the time in our daily lives. People lie to get what they want, and we are often left feeling like we can’t trust anyone ever again.
315. Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.
316. “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
317. “While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.” — Lewis Hine
318. “I don’t trust girls that claim to hate drama and to never be involved with it. I don’t like liars.”
319. “A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.” – Mark Twain
320. “Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light
321. “Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.” – Curtis Jackson
322. “Truth is no Doctoresse, she takes no degrees at Paris or Oxford… but oftentimes to such an one as myself, an Idiota or common person, no great things, melancholizing in woods where waters are, quiet places by rivers, fountains, whereas the silly man expecting no such matter, thinketh only how best to delectate and refresh his mynde continually with Natura her pleasaunt scenes, woods, water-falls, or Art her statelie gardens, parks, terraces, Belvideres, on a sudden the goddesse herself Truth has appeared, with a shyning lyghte, and a sparklyng countenance, so as yee may not be able lightly to resist her.” – Charles Lamb
323. “The worst part about being lied to is knowing that to that person, you weren’t worth the truth.” – Anonymous
324. “Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.” – Buddha
325. “I can’t go around without a phone. That’s like going around without a brain or shoes.”
326. “Only fools and liars claim to know everything because the fool thinks all that he knows is everything, and the liar knows there is no sufficient data to know everything.” – Nyona Matende
327. “Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.” – Kamand Kojouri
328. “Welcome to the beautiful Sinclair family. No one is a criminal. No one is an addict. No one is a failure.”
329. “I’ve been described by authorities and news reporters as one of this century’s cleverest bum-check passers, flimflam artists and crooks, a con man of Academy Award caliber. I was a swindler and and poseur of astonishing ability.”
330. Lying is easy. But it’s lonely. – Victoria Schwab
331. “The hardest part about pranking, Alaska told me once, is not being able to confess. But I could confess on her behalf now. And as I slowly made my way out of the gym, I told anyone who would listen, “No. It wasn’t us. It was Alaska.”
332. “I hate liars and those with no loyalty.”
333. The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. - Dorothy L. Sayers
334. “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.” – David Foster Wallace, author
335. “There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple’s corridors; she does not know herself. ‘I can endure lies,’ she cries. ‘I cannot survive this stifling verisimilitude”
336. “Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.” ~ Lyman Beecher
337. “Lies are like cockroaches. For every one you discover, there are many more that are hidden.” – Gary Hopkins
338. “I don’t care about truth. I want some happiness.”
339. Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud. - DaShanne Stokes
340. “Men are liars. We’ll lie about lying if we have to. I’m an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.” –Tim Allen
341. “Understand that the tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes–never!”
342. I am deeply sorry for lying to the best people in my life. I’m not sure I’ll ever forgive myself, but I’m begging for your forgiveness.
343. #CringeQuotes
344. “Miss Everdeen I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other.”
345. Your narcissistic abuser withholds information in a conversation, and replaces it with false information.
346. “No legacy is so rich as honesty.” —William Shakespeare, playwright. Hearing the truth can take patience—pair these truth quotes with patience quotes.
347. When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.
348. “Every truth bends and reshapes itself or is reshaped by other force.” – Leslie Woolf Hedley
349. “You can’t constantly lie and expect people to trust you.” – Anonymous
350. “Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.”
351. “Its bad manners to say “I love you” with a mouth full of lies.”
352. “Oh, God! I look like a demented creamsicle.”
353. “You find that the injustice that created a wound is no longer true, right now, in this moment.”
354. “Why had nobody ever told him? Dumbledore, Hagrid, Mr. Weasley, Cornelius Fudge... why hadn’t anyone ever mentioned the fact that Harry’s parents died because their best friend had betrayed them?”
355. A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself. – Daniel Wallace
356. “Cheating and lying aren't struggles, they're reasons to break up.”
357. “Feelings are great liars. If Christians worshipped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship. We think that if we don’t feel something there can be no authenticity in doing it. But the wisdom of God says something different: that we can act ourselves into a new way of feeling much quicker than we can feel ourselves into a new way of acting. Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.” ~ Eugene H. Peterson
358. “The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.” – Ann Landers
359. “People don’t lie to contaminate truth. They lie to pollute their hearts.” ― Munia Khan
360. “All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.” – Aristotle
361. “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
362. How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
363. “History repeats itself. Liars will be liars, cheaters will be cheaters, and the person who has always been there for you, will always be.”
364. “There is beauty in truth, even if it’s painful. Those who lie twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak, but lies only strengthen our defects. They don’t teach anything, help anything, fix anything, or cure anything nor do they develop one’s character, one’s mind, one’s heart, or one’s soul.” – Jose N. Harris
365. “The awkward moment when you know the truth, and they still continue to lie.”
366. “I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.” – Sylvester Stallone
367. The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest. To my love, I’m so sorry for lying.
368. “In politics, you learn how to say A mean to say B, in wisdom you learn how to say A and keep saying that.” ― Auliq Ice
369. “All shine, and no substance! (Turning to Cates) Bert, whenever you see something bright, shining, perfect-seeming—all gold, with purple spots—look behind the paint! And if it’s a lie—show it up for what it really is!”
370. “The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.” – Thomas Jefferson
371. “The enemy uses lies to confuse people and fill them with anxiety and fear. The apostle John said, “We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one” (1 John 5:19).”
372. “The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.” – Samuel Butler
373. “Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” – Spencer Johnson
374. “People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.” —Andy Rooney, radio and TV writer and broadcaster
375. “It wasn’t altogether a relaxing life. I didn’t exactly keep my finger on the panic button, but I put a lot of mileage on my running shoes.”
376. Because I hurt you, I hurt me too. I’m so sorry for everything I did.
377. “Stop believing the liars, trusting backstabber and loving the heart breaker.”
378. “To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth—not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.” – Debbie Ford
379. “The truth really is ‘the light of the world.” – Brad Blanton
380. “As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.”
381. “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” – Mark Twain
382. “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.”
383. “For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don’t need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.”
384. “The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
385. “There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality.”
386. “I want to see truth. I want to see the world the way it is. Not through my filters. Not through my desires. Not through the way that other people want me to see it. And I want to accept it the way it is.” – Naval Ravikant
387. One of the hardest things to do in life, is letting go of what you thought was real.
388. “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” – Winston S. Churchill
389. “Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.” – Madame de Stael
390. “Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.” —W. Clement Stone
391. “Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to heard.” – Wayne W. Dyer
392. “In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.” – Theodore Roosevelt
393. “A liar should have a good memory.” ― T.M. Logan
394. “I had always assumed he knew me as a baby. My mom had never said it outright, but still, I’d felt it must be true. Now, to be told that he’d never even seen me . . .”
395. When something goes wrong in your life, just yell “Plot twist!” and move on
396. “Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
397. “Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.” – C. S. Lewis
398. “I know you now, old enemies of mine!
399. “That can’t be my story. That’s only a start. ”
400. Some see a weed, some see a wish.
401. “Pestilence, disease, and war
402. ‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’ – Matthew 19:18b-19
403. ‘I am your grandson. You should tell me the truth. You’re not setting a very good example.‘”
404. “The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.” ~ Samuel Butler
405. “Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.”
406. The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as facts could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else. – J.K. Rowling
407. “Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.” –Joseph B. Wirthlin
408. ″ ‘I never let the truth break me before, and I’m not about to start now.’ As awful as it was, as difficult to swallow as it might be, knowing was always better than not knowing.”
409. Sometimes lying is a real pleasure. – Holly Black
410. “Thieves and liars kill indirectly, unintentionally, and with no other weapon than their tongues and malice.” – A.E.H. Veenman
411. “I hope you choke on your lies.”
412. “Liars are always ready to take oaths.” — Vittorio Alfieri
413. “As change is the order of Nature, and beauty springs from decay, so in its destined season the false for the true makes way.” – Alice Carey
414. “The truth… It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
415. “Those everyday white lies we utter will come back to haunt us eventually. Karma doesn’t forget.”
416. “His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: “Do you lie?”
417. “I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.” ~ Tom Clancy
418. “Lies don't end relationships the truth does.”
419. “He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.”
420. “Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” – Walt Whitman
421. “Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!” –Leo Tolstoy
422. “Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.” – Emily Dickinson
423. “Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.” – Maimonides
424. “There is one truth that must be sought after first before you can go further and that truth is that you must take charge of your own life for you cannot lead a life of truth if you let someone else take responsibility for your thoughts or actions.” – Byron Pulsifer
425. “It takes a lot of truth to gain trust, but just one likes to lose it all.”
426. “Pathological liars lie most often to themselves about their ability to fool others. They think they’re geniuses at it when most people see through their constant deceit in a split second. Yet their brittle egos and lack of self-awareness (the reasons they lie in the first place) prevent them from noticing they’re bad liars. Thus, they never learn, progress, and become better people.” ― Stewart Stafford
427. “It is wise not to seek a secret and honest not to reveal it.” – Benjamin Franklin
428. Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. - Aesop
429. There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty. - John Steinbeck
430. “There is beauty in truth, even if it’s painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak.” – José N. Harris
431. “You can never trust liars, after they’ve lied to you once.”
432. “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” ~ Adolf Hitler
433. Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano. - Author: Italo Svevo
434. “I overcame my fear and questioned the Glorious One and said, Lord, is it then true, as the Ape said, that thou and Tash are one? The Lion growled so that the earth shook ... and said, It is false. Not because he and I are one, but because we are opposites, I take to me the services which thou hast done to him, for I and he are of such different kinds that no service which is vile can be done to me, and none which is not vile can be done to him. Therefore if any man swear by Tash and keep his oath for the oath’s sake, it is by me that he has truly sworn, though he know it not, and it is I who reward him. And if any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name of Aslan, it is Tash whom he serves and by Tash his deed is accepted. Dost thou understand, Child? I said, Lord, Thou knowest how much I understand. But I said also (for the truth constrained me), Yet I have been seeking Tash all my days. Beloved, said the Glorious One, unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.”
435. “A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.” —Thomas Mann, novelist and Nobel laureate
436. “Liars are always most disposed to swear.” –Vittorio Alfieri
437. “Trying to make sense of crazy will simply drive you crazy. Let it go.”
438. “Guys, don’t fight in the crypt.”
439. …Even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it’s used for selfish or cowardly reasons. – Jeanne Birdsall
440. “Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.” — Austin O’Malley
441. What ever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy.
442. “Pretending to be someone you’re not is a waste of the person you are.” – Kurt Cobain
443. If you don’t know where you want to go, then it doesn’t matter which path you take.
444. Be strong & courageous. Do not be afraid. Do not be discouraged. For the lord your god will be with you wherever you go.
445. ″ ‘It wasn’t a bird!’ said Sister, ‘It was a soccer ball.’
446. “Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.” – Sissela Bok
447. Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.
448. The act of constantly asking hackers to get the Google Passwords of the person you can't ever leave alone.
449. “Basic truths cannot change and once a man of insight expresses one of them it is never necessary, no matter how much the world changes, to reformulate them. This is immutable, true everywhere, throughout all time, for all men and all nations.”
450. “When a man is penalized for honesty, he learns to lie.” – Criss Jami
451. “When the truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
452. “The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.”
453. “Stop holding your truth; speak your truth. Be yourself. It’s the healthiest way to be.” – Tiffany Haddish
454. “I don’t hate liars. I just disrespect them, because they disrespect themselves in the first place.” – Revaz Eristavi
455. “I hate liars, once you lie to me I never trust you again.”
456. “Movies, novels and books have sensationalized and downplayed stories of addiction to the point that the truth is now mostly lost with many viewing addiction as cool and just a rite of passage.” – Rachel Meyers
457. “We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.” – Iris Murdoch
458. I am sick of liars. I am sick of lies. People who say one thing, then do another. I’m talking about those people who disappear without a trace, and then reappear when they need something from you.
459. It was rather beautiful: the way he put her insecurities to sleep. The way he dove into her eyes and starved all the fears and tasted all the dreams she kept coiled beneath her bones.
460. Good music doesn’t expiration date.
461. “Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.” -Dorothy Allison
462. “The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they’re not.” ― Hillary Clinton
463. You gave me your heart and in return, I gave you lies. I can’t say sorry enough.
464. “The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.” – W. Somerset Maugham
465. “The most dangerous are those who think they are telling the truth.”
466. “Trying to make sense of crazy will simply drive you crazy. Let it go.” – Karen Salmansohn
467. “To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face one must be able to love the meanest of creation as oneself.” – Mahatma Gandhi
468. “In the expression of grief lies recovery from grief itself.”
469. “If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.”
470. The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes, never! – Mikhail Bulgakov
471. “When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
472. “There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.” – Alfred North Whitehead
473. “We live in a world that is built on promises constructed by liars.”
474. “The essence of a lie is the intention to deceive.”
475. “Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.” — Albert Camus
476. To love a person is to see all of their magic and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
477. “You may lie.”
478. “By doubting we are led to question; by questioning we arrive at the truth.” —Peter Abelard, philosopher and poet. These strength quotes will help facing the truth with these truth quotes easier.
479. “But he that sows lie in the end shall not lack a harvest, and soon, he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
480. “Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.” ― Ellen J Barrier
481. “Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.” ― Shannon L. Alder
482. “The ability to lie, paired with unaccountability, has made a near infinite amount of liabilities.” ― Justin K. McFarlane
483. “It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.”
484. “A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.” – Anonymous
485. “Truth only means something when it’s hard to admit.” – Nicholas Sparks
486. “Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.” – DaShanne Stokes
487. “Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.” – Elizabeth Bowen
488. Antisocial personality disorder
489. “Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.” —Don Miguel Ruiz, spiritualist and author. Speaking of, here are our favorite love quotes!
490. “You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.” – Donald Trump
491. “Hypocrites get offended by the truth.”
492. “All liars … lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.”
493. The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul. – E.M. Forster
494. “I don’t know if anyone’s ever told you this”, he begins. He doesn’t blush, and his eyes don’t dart away. Instead I find myself staring into a pair of oceans - one perfect, the other blemished by that tiny ripple. “You’re very attractive.”
495. “Anything is better than lies and deceit!” – Leo Tolstoy
496. “Lies don’t end relationships the truth does.” ― Shannon L. Alder
497. “Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.” ~ Octavia Butler
498. BEST friends tolerate the WORST in you. Thank you for being one. I’m sorry.
499. “When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.” – Bill Copeland
500. “The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”
501. Ruining every relationship you are in because of this other person you are obsessed over.
502. “Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.”
503. “Be careful… not all are what they seem. Some people pretend to be the beach, but they're actually quicksand.”
504. “Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
505. It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn’t see what was going on in front of your face. – Cassandra Clare
506. You only miss the sun when it starts to snow, only know you love her when you let her go.
507. “A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.” ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
508. “When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you`re both lying to you!” – Susan Forward
509. “Call Me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.”
510. It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. – Rene Descartes
511. “History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
512. “To a liar, truth is more a stranger than fiction.” – Evan Esar
513. “People ask me why is it so hard to trust others? The real question is, why is it so hard for people to tell the truth?”
514. ″ African-Americans themselves in certain parts join with Euro-Americans, to keep out of school, teachers who may be bold enough to teach the truth as it is. They usually say the races here are getting along amicably now, and we do not want these peaceful relationships disturbed by teaching of new political thought. What they mean to say with respect to the peaceful relation of the races, then, is that the African-Americans have been terrorized to the extent that they are afraid even to discuss political matters publicly.”
515. People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. - George R.R. Martin
516. Why wish upon a star? When You can pray to the one who created it.
517. Cucumber and bergamot," Clary said. Is there anything else you hate that I ought to know about?
518. “By the time you figured it out it would be too late”
519. “True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in you, O God, who are the Truth, you, my God, my true Light, to whom I look for salvation.”
520. “People are toads.” — Mona
521. “Reason is man’s instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man’s instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.”
522. “Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”
523. “The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.” ~ Thomas Sowell
524. “The truth makes all things complete, it brings things to fulfillment, and it brings thing to an end. It completes the circle of life and reality.” – E. B. Staples
525. “I wish we could stop the little lies. I don’t mean that one has to be brutally frank. I don’t believe that we should be brutal about anything, however, it is wonderfully liberating to be honest. One does not have to tell all that one knows, but we should be careful what we say is the truth.”
526. “We learned about honesty and integrity—that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.” – Michelle Obama
527. “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.” — Rudyard Kipling
528. “I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and, at times, hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” – Marilyn Monroe
529. “Tell a lie once and all your truth become questionable.”
530. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” -Winston Churchill
531. “Never lie to someone who trusts you. Never trust someone who lies to you.” – Anonymous
532. “As with all truly wild things, care is necessary in approaching them. Stealth is useless. Wild things recognize stealth for what it is, a lie and a trap. While wild things might play games of stealth, and in doing so may even occasionally fall prey to stealth, they are never truly caught by it.”
533. “But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.”
534. “Life isn’t always romantic. Sometimes, it’s realistic.” — Ezra
535. “Direct lies, small lies, huge lies, and lies of omission… these are all self-serving and sources of self-destruction.”
536. By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth. - Peter Abelard
537. “The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.” – Stephen King
538. “There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.” – Ramana Maharshi
539. “Let me apologize to begin with / Let me apologize for what I’m about to say / But trying to be genuine was harder than it seemed / And somehow I got caught up in between” -Linkin Park
540. “We learned about honesty and integrity—that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.” -Michelle Obama
541. “Something I learned about people… If they do it once they’ll do it again.”
542. “The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.” – Thomas Sowell
543. “to make a thing true all you’ve
544. “I don’t tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that’s really, like, just unbearable.” — John Lydon
545. “Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.” – W. Clement Stone
546. “That bra over there kinda put me off my feed.”
547. I am sick of liars. I am tired of the same old stuff that you tell me every day. So let’s stop this game called lying and come clean.
548. “Integrity is a bugger. It really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers, try telling nothing but the truth.” – David Mitchell
549. “Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite apart from what I would like it to be about-or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions.”
550. “The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!”
551. “When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.” ~ Theodore Dalrymple
552. “Whisper, whisper, whisper. It’s almost like Alison is still her.” — Jenna
553. “Always do what you're afraid to do.
554. “I don’t hate Liars. I just disrespect them, because they disrespect themselves in the first place.” –Revaz Eristavi
555. “A good lie finds more believers than a bad truth.” — John Laurie
556. “You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.” ~ Aristippus
557. “A persistent liar cannot prosper without a powerful memory.” ― Amit Kalantri
558. Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. —Kahlil Gibran, writer and artist
559. “You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, but you will love me later because I told you the truth.” —Mary J. Blige, singer and songwriter
560. It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth. - Ally Carter
561. “Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.” ― Epictetus
562. “Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.” –A. N. Wilson
563. “Soul to heaven, body to earth”
564. “The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.” – Jean Cocteau
565. “Many of us live in two worlds when it comes to relationships. In one we have connection without truth; in the other we have truth without connection.” – Henry Cloud
566. “The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.” – Hannah Arendt
567. When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead. - Robin Hobb
568. “Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.” ~ Mark Twain
569. “A coward talks to everyone but YOU.”
570. “I think all actors are professional liars.” –Sidharth Malhotra
571. “Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” —Walt Whitman, poet
572. Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said. - Katherine Boo
573. Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.
574. “The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.”
575. “I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all-powerful and will prevail.” – Sojourner Truth
576. “Nick loved a girl who doesn’t exist. I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I can’t help it, it’s what I’ve always done: The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what’s coveted, what’s au courant? I think most people do this, they just don’t admit it, or else they settle on one persona because they are too lazy or stupid to pull a switch.”
577. “Truth breeds hatred.” – Bias of Priene
578. “Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they’re honest about everything.”
579. “The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truth.” – William James
580. “To reach that end goal you and I must be willing to be straightforward with one another. We must be willing and prepared to stare at ourselves in the mirror and speak the truth.” —Mark Devro, self-help coach, in Forever in Bloom
581. “The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.” – Brene Brown
582. “The truth is that happiness is so compelling, so attractive – so irresistible – that whether you realize it or not, everything you do is aimed at making yourself happy.” – Marci Shimoff
583. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
584. “Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.” — Sam Harris
585. “If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.” – Logan Pearsall Smith
586. “Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.”
587. Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
588. “A storyteller makes up things to help other people. A liar makes up things to help himself.” – Daniel Wallace
589. “Learn what is true in order to do what is right.” – Thomas Huxley
590. The hero isn’t the right one, but the one who steps forward to take the blame, deserved or not, and apologize to save a relationship. – Richelle E. Goodrich
591. “Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.”
592. “The truth.” Dumbledore sighed. “It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.” – J.K. Rowling
593. “Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.” – Patricia Briggs
594. “I don’t understand how someone can tell so many lies and never feel about it.”
595. “All liars … lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.” –Aminatta Forna
596. “She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.”
597. ″‘You two can do whatever you like. Risa and I broke up this morning. Should I turn off the light when I leave?‘”
598. “Trying to make sense of crazy will simply drive you crazy
599. “When you don’t have honesty in love, then there is no communication. Honesty is the improvisation of the heart. Anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script.” – Shannon L. Alder
600. The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatly wrapped lies. - Jodi Picoult
601. “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” – Rene Descartes
602. “You need to hear the truth about yourself as frequently as possible, because your mind is so preoccupied with false self-images.”
603. “I don’t degrade anyone, but a liar and a person, who doesn’t keep his or her words, has not any value in my eyes.” ― Ehsan Sehgal
604. “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” – Buddha
605. “Truth.606. “Today, you cannot be too careful when it comes to determining who is friend or foe, who is honest or who is a liar.” – Lillian Glass
607. “… in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth.” – Edgar Allan Poe
608. “He, of course, is a liar, but that doesn’t really matter because, if you know liars are liars, it comes to the same thing.” ― Agatha Christie
609. Constantly telling every new woman that that this person won't leave you alone, while you are looking them up on the computer to see if they are looking you up on the computer.
610. “Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.”
611. “I don’t think children ever forget the lies their parents tell them.”
612. “You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
613. It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. – George Washington
614. As I look back on my life, I realise that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.
615. “Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.” – Richard Nixon
616. “She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her
617. “Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.” ― Kamand Kojouri
618. I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself. – Ruta Sepetys
619. I’m sorry I lied. I’m sorry I told the truth. I’m sorry that sorry is never enough.
620. “If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.” – William Somerset Maugham
621. “Sociopaths have lifelong patterns of deceitfulness for personal gain. They lack remorse and empathy and are wizards at rationalizing away how they hurt and mistreat others.” – Gary Small
622. In the mind of The English, kissing in the rain, as well as other public displays of affection, belongs to the category of soft porn. Sane people don't do soft porn in public. Only animals do. And aliens. - Author: Angela Kiss
623. “It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another’s existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.”
624. “The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”
625. “Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.” – Warren Buffet
626. “The man who speaks the truth is always at ease.” – Jeremiah Say
627. “If I said I was madly in love with you, I’d be lying and what’s more, you’d know it.”
628. “He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.” –Charles Peguy
629. I am sick of liars. I am sick of their lies, the smiles they wear, their empty promises and the way they walk away without even looking back.
630. “The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
631. “True knowledge comes from the upward path which leads to the eternal fire; error, defeat and death result from following the lower path of worldly attachment.”
632. “You’d think solving mysteries would bring you closure, that closing the loop would comfort and quiet your mind. But it never does. The truth always disappoints.”
633. “Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.”– Pamela Meyer
634. “The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.” – Carl Jung
635. “Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.” ~ Curtis Jackson
636. “Ruin one of us, ruin all of us.”
637. “True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.” -Mignon McLaughlin
638. “Let me get this straight, Mr. Zinzi. You’d buy stolen goods for profit, rat on somebody to save your own hide, but you’re too good to lie. Is that right?”
639. “The truth doesn’t cost anything, but a lie could cost your everything.” – Anonymous
640. “Even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it’s used for selfish or cowardly reasons.” – Jeanne Birdsall
641. I am sick of the lies. I am sick of the dishonesty. I am sick of having to pretend to be someone I am not when all I want to do is be real.
642. “When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true, and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false.” – Harry Frankfurt
643. “To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.”
644. “And so it seems I broke your heart / My ignorance has struck again / I failed to see it from the start / And tore you open ’til the end” -Halsey
645. “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” – Abraham Lincoln
646. The 3C’s in Life” Choice, Chance, Change. You must make the choice, to take the chance, if you want anything in life to change.
647. “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” – Galileo Galilei
648. “The most dangerous liars are those who think they are telling the truth.”
649. “Sometimes the best thing you can do is take a step back and give yourself a chance to breathe.” — Ella Montgomery
650. “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson
651. It might sound dramatic, but I am sick of liars. I want to let them know that no matter how creative their lies get or how many excuses they tell themselves as if they’ve done nothing wrong, we are onto them.
652. Why is Monday so far from Friday, and Friday so near to Monday?
653. “I don’t want to be cool. I want to grab her by the neck and shake her and scream at her to stop treating me like dirt. She didn’t even bother to find out the truth – what kind of friend is that?”
654. “Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.” – Martin H. Fischer
655. I am sick of the lies and make-believe. I am tired of feeling like a nobody that is unimportant. I want someone to tell me what they feel and mean it.
656. “Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.”
657. “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” – Unknown
658. “It isn’t my stomach. It’s my essay. It’s a good essay. I know it’s a good essay. She said it was awful and I was too pleased with myself. She said it was a lie. I called her a fool.”
659. Once you reject fear, you will become the perfect candidate to receive and reflect truth. - Suzy Kassem
660. “If it were a trick, I’d promise you safety. I’d offer you happiness. I don’t know if that exists in the Barrel, but you’ll find none of it with me.” For some reason, those words had comforted her. Better terrible truths than kind lies.”
661. “The wolf relates how he was making a birthday cake for his dear old granny when he ran out of sugar. Off he went to his neighbor’s to borrow a cup, but, because of his terrible cold, he sneezed a great sneeze, and the whole straw house fell down, leaving the occupant, the First Little Pig, dead as a doornail. So the wolf ate him.”
662. “By sooth-saying it is quite possible to make a living in the world, but not by truth-saying.” – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
663. “The truthful man is usually a liar.” — Alfred Nobel
664. “Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”
665. “People don't lie to contaminate truth. They lie to pollute their hearts.”
666. “We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.” – Robert Kiyosaki
667. “Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.”
668. “I will crush your scones.”
669. “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” – Stephen King
670. “A person who says they will never lie to you is probably lying already.”
671. “Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.” ― Aristotle
672. “It is so difficult—at least, I find it difficult—to understand people who speak the truth.”
673. “Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!” ~ Leo Tolstoy
674. When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie. – Criss Jami
675. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…”
676. The darkest nights produce the brightest stars
677. “I hate a liar. Maybe because I’m such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.” ― Clark Gable
678. “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” – Martin Luther King
679. “Good women fall victim to good liars.”
680. “We often find that People who claim virtue are the ones to lack it the most.”
681. No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. - François de La Rochefoucauld
682. An unbelievable truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion. - John Steinbeck
683. “It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times.”
684. “Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.” —Claude Adrien Helvétius, philosopher
685. If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed. - Thomas Hardy
686. “I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I’m not a complete hypocrite.”
687. “Never trust someone that’s good at lying… It shows they’ve had too much practice.”
688. I can’t even say it was a white lie. It was just a stupid mistake and I am so sorry.
689. “I know men and women. An honorable man is an honorable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.” ~ Gene Stratton-Porter
690. “Little lies that make people feel better are not bad, like thanking someone for a meal they made even if you hated it, or telling a sick person they look better when they don’t, or someone with a hideous new hat that it’s lovely. But to yourself you must tell the truth.”
691. “When you tell a little lie, or do a tiny cheat, or commit a small theft you are still a liar, a cheater, or a thief. Size does not matter.”
692. “The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
693. “Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.”
694. “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
695. “Being single is much better than being lied to cheated on and disrespected.”
696. “You get to tell the truth about what you love and who you are and what you dream about.”
697. “So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.”
698. Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
699. “After all that we’ve been through / I will make it up to you / I promise to / And after all that’s been said and done / You’re just a part of me, I can’t let go” -Chicago
700. “Be authentic to yourself, but if you must cheat, cheat yourself out of the lies the world created.”
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