Acting Quote by Novalis

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

— W. Somerset Maugham

A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is…

— Ashraf Dehghani

For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.

— Rumi

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe…

— Immanuel Kant

When a man has offered in sacrifice all that he has for the truth’s sake, not even withholding his life, and believing before God…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

“lying was a betrayal to one’s self. It’s evidence of self-loathing. When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie…

— Michael J. Sullivan

Man is bound to lie about himself

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain…

— Charles Peguy

Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

— Anonymous

The truthful man is usually a liar.

— Alfred Nobel

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

— Michel de Montaigne