Top 100 Truth Is A Lie Quotes
#1. In philosophy, the opposite of truth is error; in Scripture, the opposite of truth is a lie.
Brennan Manning
#2. The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison.
Bryant McGill
#3. When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.
Grace Slick
#4. Nothing is ever clear-cut in Bon Temps. What passes for truth is only a convenient lie. What passes for justice is more spilled blood. And what passes for love is never enough ...
Charlaine Harris
#6. If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
Angela Thirkell
#7. For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth
Bo Bennett
#8. Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.
Halldor Laxness
#10. I've plumb forgot where I am for the instant, which is how a good lie should take you. At the same time, I'm more where I was inside myself than before Daddy started talking, which is how lies can tell you the truth.
Mary Karr
#11. Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness, a caricature of yourself, which still lives on and appears to be, in some way, the truth about you. Even a flattering picture is ... a lie.
Isak Dinesen
#12. Sometimes a policeman must confront people about lying. No one likes to be called a liar. But it is what it is! A fact is a fact! If someone is a liar, put them on notice. You should not be punished for doing the right thing. It is the job of a good investigator to get the truth.
C. Snyder
#13. There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Franz Kafka
#14. Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#15. Anyone who believes he has caught him in a fantastic lie is apt to find out that the fantastic story is the truth. And some unimportant statement, like just having bought an evening paper a half-hour ago, is the lie."
--On Orson Welles
Bernard Herrmann
#16. History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
Mark Twain
#17. A lie for a good reason is better than a truth that destroys.
Pawan Mishra
#18. A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
Said Nursi
#19. Tell me there's a chance you could be wrong.
"If there were the slightest chance i could spare you from the pain, I would taken."
And its this-his sincerity-that finally snaps me in half. Because the truth is so unbearable I wish he'd spare me a lie.
Tahereh Mafi
#20. Maybe Christ was promoting Buddhism, maybe Buddha wasn't a prophet, maybe the Quran is older than its Prophet, and maybe we shouldn't spend another two thousand years living a lie, just because we fear the truth and the darkness it reveals within us.
Daniel Marques
#21. Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.
Suzy Kassem
#22. A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated.
James Rozoff
#23. It is better to believe an obvious lie, than to swallow a deceitful truth.
Dennis E. Adonis
#24. Sometimes people don't want the truth. Sometimes the truth is worse than a lie.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#25. Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite.
Judith Viorst
#26. I'm absolutely sure that the cruel truth without love is a lie.
Nikita Mikhalkov
#28. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.
Adrian Rogers
#29. Sometime a #lie is more #honest than the #truth . At least that lie will guide you to the #path you really believe TO walk" It tells , who U R
Tushar Upreti
#30. You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.
Byron Katie
#31. You can be with the 'truth' or you can cheat yourself by believing the big lie in front of you is the 'truth'. Those who are with the 'truth' are a minority, whom you may call Utopians.
Kandathil Sebastian
#32. And came to her a realization that the largest humiliation for the person was a lie. And the viler the one to whom you lie, the greater is the humiliation.
Osyp Nazaruk
#33. Life is Most Important in Life is The Most important Truth in Life. Any word, thought, or action that disagrees must be a lie.
David Wishengrad
#34. What is a truth and what is a lie? Is truth the mutually accepted part of a lie, or is lie a mutually denied part of truth?
Saurabh Sharma
#35. The devil has a thousand names," said Crews, voice rising, "but the name he takes the most pride in is Prince of Lies, because he is such a convincing fraud. Even God himself was fooled by Satan once, so what hope do we have to tell what's truth and what's false?
Robert Ferrigno
#37. My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.
Frank Dobson
#38. The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie.
Laurieann Gibson
#39. Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#40. Truth's opposite is not a lie, but a hundred thousand lies.
Marty Rubin
#41. To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
Oscar Wilde
#42. My entire life has been one big, fat whopper of a lie, and my parents betrayed me in the worst possible way.
I don't care if they believed they were protecting me.
You don't lie to the people you profess to love, no matter how painful the truth is.
Siobhan Davis
#43. A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.
C.S. Lewis
#45. There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter.
David Hewson
#46. So vile a thing is a lie that even if it spoke fairly of God it would take away somewhat from His divinity; and so excellent a thing is truth that if it praises the humblest things they are exalted.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#47. If the morality of "thou shalt not lie" is rejected, the "sense for truth" will have to legitimize itself before another tribunal: - as a means of the preservation of man, as will to power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#48. It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H.L. Mencken
#49. Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
Barbara Kruger
#50. Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real?
Blue Balliett
#51. A lie told well is just as good as the truth.
Jonah Lehrer
#52. What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?
Robert Redford
#53. The Dreamer awakes
The shadow goes by
The tale I have told you,
That tale is a lie.
But listen to me,
Bright maiden, proud youth
The tale is a lie;
What it tells is the truth.
Traditional Folktale Ending
#54. Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, diligently making notes or taping what is said, and they perform their interviews to fit a calculated script. The truth, alas, is always elusive.
Pete Hamill
#55. All religions segregate also ... every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.
R.J. Rushdoony
#56. As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men free.
Ben Bradlee
#57. 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
#58. Faith is revelation. And in order to receive revelation you have to be open. Belief is about closing yourself off
a lie you tell yourself to make the world fit in with how you've decided it should be. Real faith is an action - a verb. It's truth unfolding.
Nafisa Haji
#59. Wanted, a pretty lie, and they believed, because a pretty lie is easier to believe than an ugly truth.
Brom
#60. Once you tell a lie, the truth is your enemy; and every truth connected to that truth, and every ally of truth in general; all of these you must oppose, to protect the lie. Whether you're lying to others, or to yourself.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#61. The law doesn't require truth, only the appearance of it. Most cases simply rest on a version of it that's acceptable to both sides. You want to know the only truth is? Everybody lies.
Elwin Stark
John Connolly
#62. Art is short for artificial ... so the art of art is to be as real as you can within this artificial situation ...
In a way it's a lie to get you to see the truth.
Joni Mitchell
#63. A truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.
Mira Grant
#65. A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.
Anton Chekhov
#66. A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.
Rineke Dijkstra
#67. There are times when a satisfying lie is better than the awful truth.
Colleen Helme
#68. Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
John Dryden
#71. The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.
Henry Rollins
#72. People need stories. Stories of love, hope, survival, wisdom and sometimes pain. Maybe you don't tell them the full truth; maybe you tell them lies. But what is this world? A lie in itself.
Savi Sharma
#73. Fate is a fucking lie, and destiny is its bitch-ass cousin.
Ellie Wade
#74. It's a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It's hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. But now I won't do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don't lie, and I don't waste time on people who do.
Ellen Wittlinger
#75. In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.
Criss Jami
#76. Lying is not a sin, since there has never been a law-maker or philosopher who could determine what truth is. I lie for the fun of it. I lie for the fear of the gravity of life. I lie out of boredom. How can anyone who has more fantasy than the Catholic evening paper get by without lying?
Iwan Goll
#78. You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.
Idries Shah
#80. It is the truth, but not the whole truth; and half a truth is as bad as a lie.
Israel Shamir
#81. A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain
#82. Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.
Anthony Marais
#83. Another possibility is that it really is just me lying to myself, but that lie will become truth over time. People all over this city feign confidence, and that becomes something concrete. You can become the mask you wear on a day-to-day basis.
Wildbow
#84. I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.
James Dickey
#85. A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile
to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#86. If myth is translated into literal fact, then myth is a lie. But if you read it as a reflection of the world inside you, then it's true. Myth is the penultimate truth.
Joseph Campbell
#87. There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.
Diane Duane
#88. I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
Shakira
#89. Is it normal to live a lie because you're too scared to tell the truth?
Felice Stevens
#90. The ABC's success by Bob Proctor is one powerful book, such books are rare. Even sometimes it's hard to find a book which is based on somebody's experience... fantasy??
For god sake, one drop truth which is about from 10% up to 20% and the other from 80% up to 90% it's a lie.
Deyth Banger
#92. But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.
H.L. Mencken
#93. A lie is my attempt to tamper with the truth so that I need not face the truth. Yet as shrewd as I think myself to be, I would be wise to understand that God designed truth as ultimately tamper-proof.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#94. Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
Nicolas Cage
#95. A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.
John Berger
#96. [ ... ] one must have known the Levant to be able to conceive how readily persons intelligent and otherwise respectable will prefer a lie to the truth, when the slightest advantage is to be gained by the use of a falsehood.
George Perkins Marsh
#97. An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.
Mark Twain
#98. It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.
D.C. Fontana
#99. Teach them the shame that tells the lie, "I am unforgivable," when the truth is, "I feel unforgivable, but it was out of my control." Never let them switch those round right or The Adversary will liberate them in a heartbeat, like a bird flying from a cage.
Geoffrey Wood
#100. A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
