Quotes About Lying By Omission

#1. I think if you don't say something it's lying by omission. I personally think it's immoral.

Viggo Mortensen

#2. Stop lying by omission

Rachel Caine

#3. He wasn't yours to get hurt by. He was someone else's and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right do you have to be hurt when you were a part of the deception (lying by omission)?

Donna Lynn Hope

#4. I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered. And I'm standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of all that pain.

Ellen Page

#5. No artist knows everything (yea, even this artist - piss-artist, con-artist, body-artist) but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

Glen Duncan

#6. It's a silly old game.

David Duval

#7. I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.

Ronald Reagan

#8. The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

Norman Cousins

#9. Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

Julianna Baggott

#10. Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and forgery, perplexity and urgency, revelation and darkness.

Noam Shpancer

#11. The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

Emma Goldman

#12. Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.

Jennifer Chiaverini

#13. I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.

Alain Resnais

#14. The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.

Robert A. Heinlein

#15. Life is nothing more than a contradiction.

James Jean-Pierre

#16. A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.

Josephine Hart

#17. Change will happen slowly, however, unless women refuse to submit to conventional practices and begin to trust their own bodies.

Janet Balaskas

#18. It became clear that the results of our actions are not as controllable as the actions themselves.

Jason Jordan

#19. I have done whole projects with Scoop Deville, I like to basically work with a single producer. I always just worked on a bunch of songs, and then put them together, whether it was an EP or another project. None of them were mixtapes where I was rapping over other peoples beats.

Young De

#20. [T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#21. The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.

Howard Zinn