Quotes About Lying When You Know The Truth

#1. I think you've been lying to yourself so long that you don't know what the truth is anymore.

Kelly Moran

#2. THE MISCONCEPTION: You know when you are lying to yourself. THE TRUTH: You are often ignorant of your motivations and create fictional narratives to explain your decisions, emotions, and history without realizing it.

David McRaney

#3. I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if she really isn't like what she was at the beginning, I wish she could have just said so.

Stephen Chbosky

#4. Far must thy researches go
Wouldst thou learn the world to know;
Thou must tempt the dark abyss
Wouldst thou prove what Being is;
Naught but firmness gains the prize,
Naught but fullness makes us wise,
Buried deep truth e'er lies.

Friedrich Schiller

#5. Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother.

Iyanla Vanzant

#6. I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience, unless you know your truth and you're not living a lie. So I'm learning through it, and it's making me a better person, and it's making me a better artist, I think.

Diane Guerrero

#7. I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .

Leonard Cohen

#8. Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down."

Diogenes

#9. If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth.

Eckhart Tolle

#10. It is a rule of mine never to ask unsolicited questions of people over twenty-one. I am only giving them the option of lying if they choose to. They would tell me the truth without my asking if they wanted me to know. To me that's fair enough.

Dorothy West

#11. For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.

Aeschylus

#12. If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

Alison Lurie

#13. If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.

Jennifer Morrison

#14. I am a minstrel. I know more about lying than you will ever discover. And minstrels know that sometimes lies are what a man needs most. In order to make a new truth of them.

Robin Hobb

#15. You put something down and you don't know immediately what it is. It has always been like that ... All you have to know is whether you're lying or whether you're telling the truth, you can't afford to make a mistake about that distinction any longer.

John Berger

#16. When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

Orson Scott Card

#17. Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie ... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.

Francis Ford Coppola

#18. We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as truth, all that is alleged against the fame of others, is a species of credulity, that men would blush at on any other subject.

Jane Porter

#19. We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

Democritus

#20. You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

Lenny Bruce

#21. Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool ... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.

Bertolt Brecht

#22. *Oh, I know I could say were through And tell myself I'm over you But even if I made a vow I promise not to miss you now And try to hide the truth inside I fell cause I, I just can't live a lie *

Carrie Underwood

#23. You can't build a future if you do not know who you are. You can't become who you are meant to be if you can't tell the truth about who you are, what you have, and everything about your life. The truth is the absolute essence to your success, while lies are the absolute essence to your failures.

Suze Orman

#24. Dogs don't lie and why should I? Strangers come they growl and bark, they know their loved ones in the dark, Now let me, by night or day, Be just as full of truth as they.

Garrison Keillor

#25. I'm a born liar myself and I know how it's done. You stick as close to the truth as you can. You pretend to volunteer a few bits of information, but the facts are all carefully selected for effect.

Sue Grafton

#26. If we want to know where the truth lies in particular cases, we have to
look.

Richard Dawkins

#27. The code of the con is to know just enough about everything so you can lie about anything.
(attrib: E. Tancarville)

Dan Garfat-Pratt

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

#29. Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.

Elaine Stritch

#30. Tell me a truth, Senna."
"I don't know how."
"Then tell me a lie."
"I don't love you."
"The truth is for the mind," he says. "Lies are for the heart. So let's just keep lying.

Tarryn Fisher

#31. People say: But photographs are all lies. That's not the point. The lie is a truth, too. How the hell are we going to know what Kissinger looks like? Well, the photograph tells us one version; I'm trying to tell it also, but differently.

Leon Golub

#32. I may have people lying to me, but since I don't really know the truth, I can't be sure.

Sue Grafton