He who cannot lie does not know what the truth is


Friedrich Nietzsche

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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
I don't know what lies ahead, but I do know who the head is and he does not lie!
PASTOR THOMAS B. PASSANTE
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thin...
MORTIMER J. ADLER
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell t...
FRANZ KAFKA
When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what ...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET)
When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what ...
VOLTAIRE
He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.
SPANISH PROVERB
What the person, who knows the truth, will speak, will not be understood by the person who does not ...
DEVDUTT PATTANAIK
He who is not tempted, what does he know? And he who is not tried, what are the things he knows? Ecc...
BIBLE
He who does not know how to walk cannot climb a ladder.
VIKRANT PARSAI
The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds
CLAUDE BERNARD
The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.
LAO TZU
The ONE who is CALLED FAITHFUL and TRUTH cannot lie. Don't negotiate or lose your peace.
KINGSLEY OPUWARI MANUEL
He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Repetition does not transform a lie into the truth.
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT
A wise person is the one who knows what he knows and what he does not know.
MOHITH AGADI
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
JOHN STUART MILL
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
LAO TZU
We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
PABLO PICASSO
He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know.
LAO-TZU
The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain t...
LYDIA DAVIS
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and f...
CHARLES PEGUY
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and f...
CHARLES PEGUY
Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.
MARK TWAIN
He who does not love does not know God; for God is love
BIBLE
Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even af...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only h...
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he...
THOMAS CARLYLE
He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars a...
CHARLES PEGUY
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; a...
FRANZ KAFKA
[Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered...
PETER SLOTERDIJK
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is...
CARL JUNG
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is...
C.G. JUNG
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
G. K. CHESTERTON
A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going, and a perfect traveler does not know whe...
LIN YUTANG
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who do...
SAINT BASIL
Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a ...
CRISS JAMI
He, who does not believe that God wants this bit of sand to lie in this particular place, does not b...
HASIDIC PROVERB
A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not kno...
LIN YUTANG
She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder.
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB
You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.
P.G. WODEHOUSE
Ain't it funny how man's word is prison but God's words is freedom. It's sad not to know what hurts ...
NICNICLOUISIANA
Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.
PROVERB
Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.
GERMAN PROVERB
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Of what good, is a truth that may harm someone and does no good to anyone?Of what bad, is a lie that...
ANUROOP TYAGI
Of what good, is a truth that may harm someone and does no good to anyone? Of what bad, is a lie tha...
ANUROOP TYAGI
A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition ...
SAID NURSI
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth ...
PABLO PICASSO
He whose hands are clean does not like to hold an office; he who desires nothing cares not for bodil...
CHANAKYA
I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who ...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON
He who does not know how to create should not know.
ANTONIO PORCHIA
To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
VICTOR HUGO
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the...
MICHAEL CONNELLY
A man's private thought can never be a lie; what he thinks, is to him the truth, always
MARK TWAIN
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be ot...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters,...
MARK TWAIN
The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and maki...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, ...
THOMAS PAINE
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, ...
THOMAS PAINE
Being a farmer is not just what he does. It's who he is.
BETTY ROGERS
He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.
FRANÇOIS DE SALES
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
ANGELA THIRKELL
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth
ANGELA THIRKELL
A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross i...
HALIBURTON
A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross i...
THOMAS C. HALIBURTON
A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does; but he is surprised at the gross ...
UNKNOWN
Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free w...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
JIM ELLIOT
He who says what he likes, hears what he does not like
SPANISH PROVERB
We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.&...
ORIANA FALLACI
Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does...
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
He who does not know one thing knows another
AFRICAN PROVERB
You can run from the truth. You can run and hide from the truth.
You can deny and avoid the tru...
DELANO JOHNSON
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does...
ALVIN TOFFLER
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does ...
ALVIN TOFFLER
Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilf...
SUN-TZU
Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilf...
SUN TZU
A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
ISABEL ALLENDE
He who says what he likes, must hear what he does not like.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.
CHRISTINE FEEHAN
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything b...
LEO TOLSTOY
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Who did not love with his whole being and did not wait whole life for the one he loves, does not kno...
MARIANA FULGER
He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.
EPICTETUS
When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one'...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
He does not know about making the bomb, he does not know about the trigger mechanism, he does not kn...
GEN MUSHARRAF
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we...
BLAISE PASCAL
He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC
I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but ...
ALISON GOODMAN
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that...
PABLO PICASSO

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We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in ou...
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Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first ti...
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now ...
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
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So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for...
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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --he...
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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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Man is the cruelest animal.
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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would ke...
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Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty argumen...
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All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a fun...
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing...
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This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intox...
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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerou...
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Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that th...
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Only sick music makes money today.
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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
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Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate indiv...
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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t...
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Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to com...
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In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t...
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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
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Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say
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He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. An...
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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'Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he ca...
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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs w...
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants...
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Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the r...
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I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among th...
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What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, ind...
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One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, bo...
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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no ...
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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
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Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
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Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
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He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
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Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laug...
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The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act ...
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Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impote...
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I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo...
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