Quotes tagged as "truth-and-lies" Showing 1-30 of 118
"The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?"
"Wouldn't I know which one I was?"
"Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves." ― Derek Landy, Death Bringer
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." ― Thomas Paine
"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead." ― Jonathan Swift
"I don't mind being called a liar. I am. I am a marvelous liar. But I hate being called a liar when I´m telling the perfect truth." ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
"I don't want someone to believe my lies, I need someone to accept my truths." ― Kellie Elmore
"People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth" ― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
"A story is not always a lie," said Tristan. "Some stories are truer than truth." Truer than truth? That sounded like something liars made up to tell people who found them out." ― Mette Ivie Harrison, Tris & Izzie
"What is better: uncomfortable truth or comfortable lies? Every truth is a kindness, even if it makes others uncomfortable. Every untruth is an unkindness, even if it makes others comfortable." ― Glennon Doyle, Untamed
"The truth you know has all been a lie." ― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo
"Truth is emotional, it is based on vested interests. A lie that defends my interests is the absolute truth, but truth that goes against my survival is a pure lie. We know the objective truth, but we smear it, tarnish it and assassinate it if it speaks against our wellbeing." ― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
"We come into the world naked, procreate and bring forth another life in our naked being and we leave this world behind in our nakedness. Yet, we all live in our grandeur naked illusions!" ― Tina Sequeira, Bhumi: A Collection of Short Stories
"The truth is 'what is.' If 'what is' is, you have to sleep eight, ten hours a day, that is the truth. A lie will be: People need no sleep at all. Truth is 'what is.' If every politician from the beginning is crooked, there is no crooked. But if you are concerned with a lie, 'what should be'-and 'what should be' is a fantasy, a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago: This is what should be-and no one ever saw what should be, that you don't need any sleep and you can go seven years without sleep, so that all the people were made to measure up to that dirty lie. You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never a truth." ― Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
"Lies have no permanent hiding place" ― Dr Ikoghene S. Aashikpelokhai
"Hey! Do you really want to know the truth?" ― Chiemerie Promise
"You lie and I'll figure out the truth." ― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo
"It happens all the time. People lie to themselves or their therapists because they're ashamed or they don't want to deal with the reality of their circumstances. Sometimes people are manipulative and twist the narrative to get something from the therapist: attention, empathy, love. Or the most likely reason: Sometimes the truth really hurts." ― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Let Love Rule
"Truth builds the bridge of trust; whereas, lie breaks it." ― Ehsan Sehgal
"I admit I couldn't eradicate the intertwined memories which allocated a deep-rooted impression in the conscious mind, but how long is it till the habitual dolour is due. As time passes, memory inevitably dwindles itself." ― DEEPAK DUBEY, Good Night, Dear Eddie
"When they emphasize and present things as "truth" then it is not at all truth they presented in the first place." ― Aiyaz Uddin
"Have I ever seen a star breaking from the sky? Or is it you falling from eye?" ― Wrushank Sorte
"One day, your dreams will bring all the lost truths to your doorstep." ― Michael Bassey Johnson , The Oneironaut's Diary
"The truth was a nebulous line between fact and fiction. Reality and illusion." ― Laura C. Reden, Phantom Reality
"No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise." ― William Congreve
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