Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Ceslaw Milosz
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAG Nothing makes you more vulnerable than your refusal to be honest with yourself.You can suppress the ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but ...
ALISON GOODMAN Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.
KATHRYN L. NELSON to seek the truth, you
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& if they believe in your lie,
they will tell you the tru...
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Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even whe...
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There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberat...
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A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
TIM O'BRIEN I have found that liars in the end communicate more truth than do truth tellers.” “How’s that?...
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In the lie of truth lies the truth.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a trut...
ANURAG SHOURIE The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.
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The longer you live a comfortable lie, the farther you drift from your purpose, and the harder will ...
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
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Fire failure by fighting falsehood. Forget the fears; Fix the future; Flee from fake friends. There ...
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Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of wal...
STEVEN PINKER Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.
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I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.
SIMONA PANOVA If the truth refuses to speak out,but decides to employ nemesis to catch up with the lie,then it may...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's irony;The truth lovehate the lie because, the lie makes it exist & also makes it temporarily ...
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Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risk...
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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 b...
STEPHEN KING Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye
will do. He was a murderer from t...
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.
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To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid ...
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A lie travels farther than the truth.
IRISH PROVERB The ONE who is CALLED FAITHFUL and TRUTH cannot lie. Don't negotiate or lose your peace.
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There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because i...
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ a thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer then the truth
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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
THEODOR ADORNO Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
THEODOR W. ADORNO If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ...
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...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt...
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There’s more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie, but y...
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When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth tol...
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For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.
THE TALMUD Listen with your eyes and not your ears ! your ears will lie to you ,but your eyes will tell you the...
RUBY RACHELLE HARDEE But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for t...
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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with ...
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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder with t...
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But may the truth be told. May the true self may be found. May the truth rule the world more than ev...
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Never lie. Firstly, you will be caught in the lie sooner or later. Secondly, count on problems when ...
ERALDO BANOVAC The cold absolute truth is much more preferred than a kind and uncertain lie.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falseho...
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All this was inspired by the principle--which is quite true in itself--that in the big lie there is ...
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another...
NIELS BOHR The truth of God must be announced before the arrival of your opinions. If not, your opinions are no...
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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; a...
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Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.
TAMORA PIERCE The absolute truth is a wicked sort of rush. It’s far more amusing than any lie. Both have the pot...
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He who cannot lie does not know what the truth is
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He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.
SPANISH PROVERB You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your ...
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NEVER LIVE A LIE
BECAUSE
"THEY"
WON'T ACCEPT YOUR TRUTH!
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
AL PACINO Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
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Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
JEAN COCTEAU “The perfect lie must have a pinch of truth.”
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Telling the truth is less demanding than telling a lie.
ERALDO BANOVAC ![]()
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
STANISLAW LEC Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
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Hiding the truth is as evil as feeding
the lie grow tough muscles.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day,
But night itself does the rich gem betray.
ABRAHAM COWLEY A partial truth, is half of a lie...
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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
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That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,/ But a lie which is part a truth ...
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That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,/ But a lie which is part a truth ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Underneath, he was a good cat. Loyal and loving. But no one ever bothered to look past his rough ext...
CAMBRIA HEBERT A woman in a corset is a lie, a falsehood, a fiction, but for us, this fiction
is better than th...
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie
THOMAS MANN A hurtfull truth is better than a comforting lie
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To maintain your integrity, be a person who does not violate the principles of the truth. Vote for t...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The best lie is wrapped around a core of truth.
MICHAEL SCOTT Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.
MARISHA PESSL O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong,
And let no warrior in the heat of fight
Do w...
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You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON The truth may hurt once, a lie will hurt everytime it is remembered.
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To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become full...
DEBBIE FORD Don't Lie alone, join group of liars so that your Lie can be successful.
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I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR There may come a time when you will wish you had never tasted the fruit from the tree of knowledge. ...
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be ex...
GRAHAM GREENE When a lie has been embedded in the public consciousness, the truth has a difficult time making itse...
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In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches...
CRISS JAMI Repetition does not transform a lie into the truth.
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A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
TIM O'BRIEN Lie is an ambassador of the truth,without pay.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's the truth coming from somebody willing to lie.
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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like ...
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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like...
WILLIAM SHENSTONE 
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of ... 
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. 
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even whe... 
There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberat... 
A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth. 
In the lie of truth lies the truth. 
The longer you live a comfortable lie, the farther you drift from your purpose, and the harder will ... 
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. 
Fire failure by fighting falsehood. Forget the fears; Fix the future; Flee from fake friends. There ... 
Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of wal... 
I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth. 
Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risk... 
if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will b... 
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. 
To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid ... 
A lie travels farther than the truth. 
There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because i... 
A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth. 
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. 
There’s more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie, but y... 
When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie... 
For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie. 
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for t... 
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with ... 
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder with t... 
But may the truth be told. May the true self may be found. May the truth rule the world more than ev... 
Never lie. Firstly, you will be caught in the lie sooner or later. Secondly, count on problems when ... 
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falseho... 
All this was inspired by the principle--which is quite true in itself--that in the big lie there is ... 
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another... 
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; a... 
Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth. 
He who cannot lie does not know what the truth is 
He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth. 
NEVER LIVE A LIE 
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. 
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. 
I am a lie who always speaks the truth. 
Telling the truth is less demanding than telling a lie. 
Never lie when the truth is more profitable. 
Hiding the truth is as evil as feeding
Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day,
But night itself does the rich gem betray. 
I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth. 
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,/ But a lie which is part a truth ... 
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,/ But a lie which is part a truth ... 
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. 
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie 
To maintain your integrity, be a person who does not violate the principles of the truth. Vote for t... 
You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie... 
To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become full... 
I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily. 
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be ex... 
In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches... 
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written. 
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like ... 
At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I st... 
Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable a...