Great Lie Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think…
— Remy de Gourmont
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I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest…
— Willem Dafoe
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The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this…
— John Trudell
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In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into…
— Andrew Sullivan
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But no sooner had morning broken than he took hold of his whip and ceremoniously stepped out to address his slaves. Each blow was liberating,…
— Juhani Peltonen
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Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe…
— Anne Frasier
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No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which…
— Vicente del Bosque
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Half a truth is often a great lie.
— Benjamin Franklin
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A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt…
— George Crabbe
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if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always…
— Stephen King
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fiction is the great lie that tells the truth
— Dorothy Allison
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A professionally trained actress should be a better liar, wouldn't you think? But no. I am pathetically underachieved in that area. I can think of…
— Kristin Chenoweth
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Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true,…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often…
— George R. R. Martin
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Parliaments are the great lie of our time.
— Konstantin Pobedonostsev
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Half the truth is often a great lie.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The great lie of the news media: I am the public.
— Azgraybebly Josland
Who Wrote These Great Lie Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Great Lie Quotes as follows: