FastSaying

Lies are a little fortress; inside them you feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are justifications for your lies.

William Paul Young

William Paul Young

truth-and-lies

Related Quotes

The most harmful lies and the most hurtful, always contain a grain of truth," he said. "But nevertheless, lies they do remain.
— Robin Jarvis
liestruthtruth-and-lies
Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception—what you think is true about a given situation. If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false too.
— William Paul Young
truth-inspirational
No mask like open truth to cover lies,As to go naked is the best disguise.
— William Congreve
LiesTruth
And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where
— William Cowper
LiesTruth
Even if he could not see them, several lifetimes of listening to emperors, kings, princes, politicians and thieves had taught him that it was often not what people said, but what they did not say that revealed the truth.
— Michael Scott
truth-and-lies