Noble Lie Quotes

#1. Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes.

Christina Hoff Sommers

#2. The Noble Lie - the idea that men are brothers and are created equal.

Pierce Brown

#3. The rhetoric of this masked master is one of the tolerance of difference. What better way to keep people in tow, hold them in the same old line of the same, than to console them with the noble lie of difference

Anonymous

#4. They lie in all the pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water. I saw them: grim faces and evil, and noble faces and sad. Many faces proud and fair, and weeds in their silver hair. But all foul, all rotting, all dead.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie; and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. A salacious lie will always trump a noble truth.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. Sometimes it's more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.

Robin Williams

#8. I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Homer

#9. Good stories are like those noble wild animals that make their home in hidden spots, and you must often settle down at the entrance of the caves and woods and lie in wait for them a long time.

Hermann Hesse

#10. To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#11. Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart.

Gordon B. Hinckley