Top 100 Truth Than A Lie Quotes
#3. Nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?
Jeanne Moreau
#4. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
H.L. Mencken
#5. Don't be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.
Dianna Hardy
#6. Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Czeslaw Milosz
#7. A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#8. Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.
Halldor Laxness
#9. It has been said that nothing dispels a lie faster than the truth; nothing exposes the counterfeit faster than the genuine.
R.C. Sproul
#10. People don't care what really happened - the truth - they care about what makes them feel better, what puts them higher on the scorecard than someone else - even if it's a lie.
Katie McGarry
#11. A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.
Anurag Shourie
#12. It is better to be told a hurtful truth than to be told a comforting lie. In the end, the truth will make its way out and will hurt much more than it ever had to. - Anonymous
Randy Susan Meyers
#13. A partial truth is nothing more than an entire lie.
Fred Munoz
#14. Be moved by a person's actions, not their words. Remember a sugar-coated lie sounds more convincing than the naked truth.
Angeline M. Bishop
#15. Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.
Paulo Coelho
#16. I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
H. Rap Brown
#17. Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.
Joyce Giraud
#18. Sometimes people would rather accept a lie than know the truth. Life is a whole lot easier to swallow that way.
K.K. Allen
#19. Let that be a lesson to you," chided Dixon. "Wanting or not wanting something to be so doesn't make is so--any more than repeating a lie makes it the truth.
Patricia Reding
#20. It is better to die for the truth than to live for a lie. Let it cost me what it will, I will not depart from the truth, even to save my own or my father's life. I will obey God, and trust Him for the rest.
Christoph Von Schmid
#21. Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.
Robert Breault
#22. A lie for a good reason is better than a truth that destroys.
Pawan Mishra
#23. Comforting lies are better than a hurting truth, is my policy, but it's impossible to lie in front of you
D. Aswini
#24. 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
#25. The lie described my life better than the truth,' I added. 'Until it became a kind of truth.
Ben Lerner
#27. A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Thomas Mann
#28. I don't know how old you are. But I know the lie you hear. You are too young. You are too old. You don't know enough, or you know too much. The truth is that courage doesn't have an expiration date. Courage doesn't have a marker that says, "You must be taller than THIS to ride this ride.
Annie F. Downs
#29. Yes, I know most of you can tell the difference between the truth and a lie, but a lie repeated often enough is easily mistaken for the truth. A falsehood left unrefuted in time becomes a fact. I tell you, the tongue is mightier than the sharpest talon.
Jim Tan
#30. We have a saying in the desert: It is better to see the truth, than to imagine it.
Amber Jacobs
#31. Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
Adolf Loos
#32. It is better to believe an obvious lie, than to swallow a deceitful truth.
Dennis E. Adonis
#33. Sometimes people don't want the truth. Sometimes the truth is worse than a lie.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#34. I am happy with you." It was only a half-lie. In truth, being with him made me happier than anything. But it was a bittersweet happiness because from this moment on, it would be overshadowed with the wait and wonder of when and how our relationship would dissolve.
Alicia Kobishop
#35. I'd rather deal with the consequences of the truth rather than the benefits of a lie.
Devin Kelley
#36. Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.
Joe Abercrombie
#37. It's always better to live the truth than to live a lie.
Cassandra Clare
#38. 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
#39. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.
Adrian Rogers
#40. 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
#41. Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. "Almost" always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible.
Fyodor Sologub
#42. A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.
Ivan Panin
#43. There is more beauty in a harsh truth than in a pretty lie, more poetry in earthiness than in all the salons of Paris.
Irving Stone
#44. There was no better way to sell a lie, she knew, than to sprinkle it with truth.
Kaede Lazares
#45. It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.
George Harrison
#46. Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.
Tamora Pierce
#47. Sometimes a lie builds until the truth does more harm than good
Luke Scull
#48. A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths.
Faraaz Kazi
#49. With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.
Mike Rinder
#50. 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
#51. An unbelieved truth can hurt a man more than a lie.
John Steinbeck
#52. Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie. - Russian
Rachel Van Dyken
#53. There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!
Melina Marchetta
#54. 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
#55. The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.
J.K. Rowling
#56. 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
#57. A half truth is much worse than a whole lie because it makes it even harder to tell the difference between the two.
Gene Ruyle
#58. half truth can be more harmful than a full lie.
Deepak Goyal
#59. There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
William James
#60. I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.
Werner Herzog
#61. Waking up in TRUTH is so much better than living in a lie.
Idris Elba
#62. A lie with confidence is more powerful than a truth without it.
M.F. Moonzajer
#63. It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. And that lie would have kept him alone forever. He may have had nearly nothing for 5 years, but now he can have everything. A boy who looks like that ... Magnus.
Cassandra Clare
#66. A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.
Charlotte Armstrong
#67. I'd rather hear the ugly truth than a pretty lie. 11-23-2011
Jan Thomas
#68. A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
Tim O'Brien
#69. Communicating real, raw, harsh truth to people is always better than communicating a 'pleasant lie' . . .
Alan Roger Currie
#70. Sometimes it's more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.
Robin Williams
#72. Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#73. As I had been forced to learn at a very young age, there's no better way to mask a lie - or at least a glaring omission - than to wrap it in an emotional outpouring of truth.
Alan Bradley
#74. A story is not always a lie," said Tristan. "Some stories are truer than truth."
Truer than truth? That sounded like something liars made up to tell people who found them out.
Mette Ivie Harrison
#75. A lie carries a weight that is exponentially higher than the truth. It's weight will retard growth directly in proportion to the area lied.
Howard L. Salter
#76. Wanted, a pretty lie, and they believed, because a pretty lie is easier to believe than an ugly truth.
Brom
#77. It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.
Simon Sinek
#78. Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.
Tanya Huff
#79. A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.
Anton Chekhov
#81. But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
Khaled Hosseini
#82. There are times when a satisfying lie is better than the awful truth.
Colleen Helme
#83. In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.
R.D. Laing
#84. 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
#85. The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.
Henry Rollins
#86. So agressive, so much screaming, so cruel picture... But that's the truth, better the truth than the lie after a lie and a lie...
Deyth Banger
#87. 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
#88. 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
#90. Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
Graham Greene
#92. 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
#93. There's a tipping point with lies, a point where you've said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.
Holly Black
#94. 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
#95. It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#96. We also hate lying because it is more than just fibbing, it is a personal slight. It is the liar's way of saying, "I don't respect you." That is precisely what we tell God when we lie. Lying is our special way of saying to God, "I hate the truth. I hate you.
Todd Friel
#97. Mama always used to say it's better to choke on a bitter truth than savor a honeycake lie.
C.L. Wilson
#98. As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
William James
#100. When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.
Christopher Moore
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