Lies That Speak Truth Quotes

#1. A person can perhaps trust his eyes only to the amount of truth his heart does not mind to speak openly to the people to touch their souls in this selfish world full of lies.

Anuj

#2. The truth actually lies mostly in three words - God bless you, I love you, I adore you, I trust you, I believe you, I mistrust you, and finally God curse you, I hate you and talak talak talak. Only the frauds and politicians speak beyond the three truthful words.

Amit Abraham

#3. From time to time
I once wondered how one wanders from time to time
And think up the paradox line
Speak of Epoch's crime
Oh I lied, it hasn't happened yet
But bet you better believe it's such a habit that
I just said that in a past mindset

Criss Jami

#4. Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

Criss Jami

#5. Those who speak the truth in this world; they fall out of favor, in the current era of inflated lies.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#6. Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidence
could be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.

Toba Beta

#7. Secrets are like scars. The cut may no longer be there, but the scar's white line tells a story. Unless you share it, it's like you're hiding a part of yourself the whole world can already see. They may not know the how or the why, but they see it just the same.

Robin M. King

#8. It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from 'the wise man's mouth' but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.

J.M. Coetzee

#9. Let our lives be firmly rooted in Truth. Abstain from lies. In this dark age of materialism, adherence to truth is the greatest austerity. We might have to tell lies now and then to protect somebody or to sustain dharma, but we must be careful not to speak lies for our own selfish purposes.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#10. Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles

#11. You may use a thousand words for a single lie, but the truth has no twin.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#12. Dad got furious when we lied to him. No, Dad got furious then we lied to him.

Brian Spellman

#13. You deliver a message every time you speak. Do you deliver the truth, or do you deliver lies? When the message you deliver comes from truth and love, you are happier.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#14. The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness
And time to speak it in. You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster.

William Shakespeare

#15. Truth speaks for itself if we'd just let it speak.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. but on Barsoom no man lies; if he does not wish to speak the truth he is silent.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#17. Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#18. Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Diogenes

#19. If there is any truth in the world, it lies when I'm with you, and if I find the courage to speak my truth to you one day, remind me to light a candle in thanksgiving at every altar in Rome.

Andre Aciman

#20. Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#21. Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.

Thomas Sowell

#22. It's not enough to listen to their words. You have to mine their silences for buried ore. It's often only in the lies that we refuse to speak that truth can be heard at all.

Karen Marie Moning

#23. Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can't speak for itself, it's not truth.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#24. They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.

Jeff Lindsay

#25. I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

Oscar Wilde

#26. I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.

Jack Kirby

#27. A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth

Rudyard Kipling

#28. If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie.

Amit Kalantri

#29. It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

Noam Chomsky

#30. Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.

Orrin Woodward

#31. Your tongue may speak lies, but your eyes know the truth.

Amber Jacobs

#32. Lies are terrible things. One could say that the greatest sins afflicting modern society are the proliferation of lies and silence. We lie through our teeth, then swallow our tongues. All the same, were we to speak only the truth all year round, then the truth might lose its value.

Haruki Murakami

#33. It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

Karen Marie Moning

#34. Force persuades a person to speak, but it cannot guarantee his honesty. Quite the reverse: it will extract confessions from innocents and lies from simple sinners ...

Meredith Duran

#35. We may talk of the best means of doing good; but, after all, the greatest difficulty lies in doing it in a proper spirit. Speak- the truth in love, "in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves" - with the meekness and gentleness of Christ.

Asahel Nettleton

#36. Colourful lips are pretty, child but they also speak colourful lies.

J. Limbu

#37. Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.

Gautama Buddha

#38. Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak prudently, with a careful look over his shoulder.

Yevgeny Zamyatin