101 Quotes About Truth-and-lies



  • Author Mette Ivie Harrison
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    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.

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  • Author William P. Young
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    Lies are a little fortress; inside them you feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are justifications for your lies.

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  • Author Michael Scott
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    Even if he could not see them, several lifetimes of listening to emperors, kings, princes, politicians and thieves had taught him that it was often not what people said, but what they did not say that revealed the truth.

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  • Author The British Consul.
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    If we have told lies you have told half lies. A man who tells lies merely hides the truth, but a man who tells half truths has forgotten where he put it.The British consul to Laurence of Arabia before he arrived with the Arab army in Damascus.

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