Faith Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“Lying is such a central characteristic of life that better understanding of it is relevant to almost all human affairs.”

— Paul Ekman

“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that…

— Clare Boothe Luce

“Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind’s equivalent of feeding, fighting, and…

— Barry Eisler

“What is a lie? It’s a distortion of reality, presented as reality.”

— James Patterson

“A lie distorts the image of reality. It is a delusion of the human mind which can disrupt an individual's sense of what is…

— Eraldo Banovac

“Why do we tell lies? We lie because the truth is too painful or too shameful for us to face, or because the truth…

— John Webster

“The more we look at anything, the more we see ourselves in the thing. This is called projection. There’s an ethics to projection, an…

— Kris Kidd

“To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again,…

— George Orwell

“Is it possible to live reasonably without lying? Do lies form the natural foundation of all human relationships, the thread that stitches our individual…

— William Boyd

“I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even…

— Osamu Dazai

“By most people the 'sense of reality' is understood to be the submission to events and indeed illusion is often salvation.”

— Lionel Trilling

“When a lie has been embedded in the public consciousness, the truth has a difficult time making itself known.”

— Bethany L. Brand