Animal Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to lie.

— HG Wells

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

— Anonymous

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

— Mark Twain

“Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order to live at all.”

— Ernest Becker

“human beings are known universally as the only animals capable of lying, and while it is true that they sometimes lie out of fear…

— José Saramago

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

— Desiderius Erasmus

Animals and children tell the truth, they never lie. Which one is more human, there's a thought now you decide.

— Savage Garden

Lies are powerless without man but the truth is ever powerful even without man.

— Terry Mark

The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace;…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare…

— William Hazlitt

The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing…

— H. L. Mencken