Top 100 Truth Than Lies Quotes
#1. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. 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
#4. It is almost better to tell your own lies than somebody else's truth; in the first case you are a man, in the second you are no better than a parrot!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#5. I just feel like even the ugliest truth feels a whole lot better than carrying around the weight of lies.
Ginger Scott
#6. Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.
Halldor Laxness
#7. 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
#8. The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or more than that, a provoker of content. If it prints lies about atrocities, real atrocities are the result.
Karl Kraus
#9. 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
#10. A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.
Samuel Johnson
#11. How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.
Vincent Van Gogh
#12. Focus on what's important. Give more attention to your dreams than your fears, to your now than your then, to your expansive truth than other's diminishing lies.
Unknown 21
#13. Reality is merely one-tenth visible section of the iceberg that one sees above the surface of the ocean - art remaining nine-tenths of it that lies below the surface. That is why it is more near Truth than Reality itself. Art does not merely reflect Reality - it enlarges it.
Anita Desai
#14. The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.
Harlan Coben
#15. We spend our lives getting caught up in all the wrong things
led astray by our minds, our egos, seeing ourselves as separate from each other, rather than listening to the truth that lies within our own hearts, the truth that we are all connected, we are all in it together.
Alyson Noel
#16. To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
James Russell Lowell
#17. Sometimes love is nothing more than a sticky web; illusions spun from clever minds and bitter hearts.
Nicole Lyons
#18. I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.
Charles De Lint
#19. I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.
Cormac McCarthy
#20. The problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#21. Year-end financial statements ... express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.
Alain De Botton
#22. The ancients say that one note of a song is twenty times more powerful than a single word, and that only in song can truth be clearly perceived, for though words can harbor lies, music cannot abide them.
Nicole Evelina
#23. I would rather suffer with truth than celebrate with lies.
Orrin Woodward
#24. Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.
D.H. Lawrence
#25. Pretty soon, I'll be decomposing into phosphorous, calcium, and so on. Who else will you find to tell you the truth? All that's left are the archives. Pieces of paper. And the truth is... I worked at an archive myself, I can tell you first hand: paper lies even more than people do.
Svetlana Alexievich
#26. Too much truth in the hands of a liar is more dangerous than a world of lies told to the truthful
Thomas R. Williams
#27. How could a woman know that you meant nothing that you said; that you spoke only from habit and to be comfortable? After he no longer meant what he said, his lies were more successful with women than when he had told them the truth.
Ernest Hemingway,
#28. Comforting lies are better than a hurting truth, is my policy, but it's impossible to lie in front of you
D. Aswini
#29. Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right.
"The common good and the individual good rarely coincide ... "
Sure, I know, it's true.
But some truths are probably worse than lies.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#30. What a terrible man, I thought, worse than a traitor. At least a traitor betrays people by telling the truth. Uncle Zhu tried to save himself by telling lies.
Ji-li Jiang
#31. It's better to have no secrets. Lies are always harder to manage than the truth.
Helen Humphreys
#32. Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings.
Anthony Liccione
#33. A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Thomas Mann
#34. There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.
George A. Smith
#35. Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#37. It is better to believe an obvious lie, than to swallow a deceitful truth.
Dennis E. Adonis
#38. It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies.
David Allan
#39. I know it's a lot. But she can handle it. I'd rather ruin her with the truth than ruin her with lies.
Maria Semple
#40. In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.
Jodi Picoult
#41. It felt like all the truth got whitewashed with fake happiness," she said, "only it was not happy and it was worse than fake. It was dangerous
Amy Tan
#42. I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino
#43. One truth is bigger than hundred lies
say always the truth and stay out of tensity
MK PRINCE
#44. 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
#45. Truth is better for humanity than ignorance, lies, or spin. And it's more interesting.
Steve Sailer
#46. He realized this early on, and realized too that what people think are their lives are merely its conditions. The truth is closer than thought and lies buried in what we already know.
Simon Van Booy
#47. Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. "Almost" always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible.
Fyodor Sologub
#48. How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.
Francesco Guicciardini
#49. Oftentimes it's easier for lunatics to attract impassioned followers than it is for sensible people to get people to listen to reason. People are often more willing to believe lies than the truth. Lies can be made to sound pleasant. The truth, by its very nature, isn't always so attractive.
Terry Goodkind
#50. There was no better way to sell a lie, she knew, than to sprinkle it with truth.
Kaede Lazares
#51. He wanted to live in a house built on delusion, would rather believe in a million lies than face one truth.
- Seven circles around the sea, by Mordove Senia
Marie Lu
#52. We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
#53. 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
#54. The truth always arrive too late because it walks slower than lies. Truth crawls at a snail's pace.
Maryse Conde
#55. Sometimes a lie builds until the truth does more harm than good
Luke Scull
#56. A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths.
Faraaz Kazi
#57. Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.
Nawal El Saadawi
#58. The world is held together by lies. When I paint, I'm searching for the truth between them, but I'm no better at this than anyone else. Worse, probably.
Gareth P. Jones
#59. Some lies are easier to believe than the truth.
Frank Herbert
#60. It is better to choose to know the painful truth rather than settle on a comforting lie. Resolve to look for and to accept the truth, no matter how much it hurts. Nothing built on lies lasts.
Rod Dreher
#61. Denial is a seductive ruse of our own making, force-fitting our agendas by forcing out truth all because we bent to fear rather than bowed to God.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#62. sometimes lies are more interesting than the truth
Sara Shepard
#63. We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love stronger than death.
Pope Benedict XVI
#64. The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester
Anne Perry
#65. The Truth is different than human truths; they are like LIGHT.
Truths are like a color, absolute and true, while THE TRUTH is all colors and still colorless; the duality of Truth.
Caesar J. B. Squitti
#66. They'd rather hate you for the truth than love you for the lies.
Kirk Jones
#68. Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
John Hodgman
#69. Truth is stranger than fiction because lies are much more convincing but the truth always comes out no matter how long it takes.
Sanjo Jendayi
#70. Satan is behind the theory of evolution. Satan hates God and us. Satan is the father of all lies. So he wants nothing more than to make every human being alive believe lies about God, ourselves and how and why we exist.
Lisa Bedrick
#71. There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.
Christiaan Huygens
#72. People believed in lies far more easily than the truth
Joy Preble
#73. A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.
Charlotte Armstrong
#74. Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.
Gautama Buddha
#75. A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
Tim O'Brien
#76. Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.
Johnny Rich
#78. In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found.
Edgar Allan Poe
#79. It is better to be hurt with the truth than to be encouraged with lies ...
Adedayo Kingjerry
#80. Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side.
Hugh Latimer
#81. 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
#82. It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. Beyond that ... [it's] delight in, and play with, language; also, a curiously intimate way of communicating with people whom you will never meet.
Julian Barnes
#84. We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.
Beth Moore
#85. You can know someone in a moment of Honesty than ever you can in a lifetime of Lies..
Javan
#87. The truth may be better than lies ... But it doesn't always set you free.
Harlan Coben
#88. Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere
Blaise Pascal
#89. Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.
Tanya Huff
#90. the lies of the creative artist are truer than the truth of the half-sleeping ordinary man
Malcolm D. Allen
#91. It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#93. Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidence
could be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.
Toba Beta
#94. Simple lies are always better than a complicated truth.
Holly Black
#95. When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.
Johnny Depp
#96. Apathy is unconditional surrender where we are driven into hiding by unrealistic fear, and firmly held there by the misinformed belief that we are helpless to do anything other than hide. Therefore, apathy survives solely on lies and can be completely abated by truth.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#97. A person's words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.
Anuj
#98. Most of us would rather kill ourselves than be, particularly if who we think we are keeps dying. Many of us do.
Brad Blanton
#99. People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.
Steve Hely
