Lying Quotes

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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and… — Charles Edward Montague
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's… — Ralph Chaplin
Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers in Kafka's strange… — Walter Benjamin
A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic… — Eric Hoffer
To me, I don't think it does anybody any good to just hide something or cover it up or lie or whatever. I think ...… — Demi Lovato
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel
What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when… — Gaston Bachelard
The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their… — John Baldoni
Life to me is the greatest of all games. The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly,… — Ernest Shackleton
If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. Never lie to yourself. — Paulo Coelho
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is… — Mark Twain
Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative — Aristotle
Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you will capture differences.… — Carol Tavris
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other… — Michel de Montaigne
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to… — Albert Einstein
I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I go berserk just… — William Saroyan
Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. — Leo Tolstoy
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be… — David Hume
In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies within him, in… — Glenn Cunningham

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