We sometimes benefit way more from being lied to than the person lying to us.

It is not easy to keep a friend convinced that you still deserve to be kept as a friend, especially if you hate lying.

We often want to hear, not what is true, but what we want to hear.

Some lies are more useful than, or useful unlike, some facts.

The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.

Sometimes the truth is way more comforting than the misbelief or the lie from which we derive comfort.

More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.