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Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice. -- J. K. Rowling
In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles. -- Emile Zola
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Perhaps by sharing my personal weight-loss journey on television, I can help others confront the truth and lies behind obesity. -- Ruby Gettinger
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
One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear. -- Cal Thomas
Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter. -- Desmond Tutu
Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban. -- A. S. Byatt
Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. -- Langston Hughes
Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news. -- William Shakespeare
He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths... -- Bernhard Schlink
Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles. -- Christian Friedrich Hebbel
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been. -- Louis Gustave Vapereau
No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin. -- H. L. Mencken
What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks. -- Sacha Guitry
Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies. -- Dean Koontz
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. -- Graham Greene
And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie. -- Colin Mochrie
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. -- James Agee
In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete. -- Mark McKinnon
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. -- Alexander Pope
I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test. -- Paula Jones
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. -- Stephen King
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. -- Wole Soyinka
Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth. -- David Whyte
Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference. -- Mort Sahl
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. -- James E. Faust
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. -- Ice Cube
Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be. -- Sebastian Horsley
I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing. -- Waris Dirie
When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth. -- Eva Mendes
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. -- Alfred Adler
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
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it. -- Harry Frankfurt
When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth! -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Truth hurts. But lies can kill. -- Karen Marie Moning
Many lies lie between one truth. -- Toba Beta
Truth exists; only lies are invented. -- Georges Braque
Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows. -- Anthony D. Williams
light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. -- Brandon Sanderson
Particular lies may speak a general truth. -- George Eliot
Truth does not surround itself with lies. -- John Christopher
The truth hurts, but those lies heal. -- Drake
Poetry lies its way to the truth. -- John Ciardi
In the essence of truth lies deceit. -- Dejan Stojanovic
The truth may hurt but lies kill. -- Anonomyus
Myths are lies that tell the truth. -- Phil Cousineau
Art is lies that tell the truth. -- Pablo Picasso
Lies is lying the memory from the truth -- Ahmad Rahmat Ramadhan
Truth is for life; lies are for entertainment. -- M Chapman
The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence). -- Mahatma Gandhi
Lies are convenient when the truth is unfathomable. -- Courtney M. Privett
Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth. -- Orson Scott Card
Hmmmm Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm. -- Brandon Sanderson
Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth. -- Orson Scott Card
Our truth is the intersection of independent lies -- Richard Levins
Truth is treason in the empire of lies. -- Ron Paul
...visual truth lies in the structure of light. -- Richard Kelly
In the lie of truth lies the truth. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. -- Michael Jackson
Tell the truth, lies are difficult to remember. -- William Cranch Bond
Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred. -- Vaclav Havel
There must be repressed truth even in lies. -- Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies. -- Mark Twain
The best lies were always mixed with truth. -- Sarah J. Maas
All your lies became truth of my life! -- Balkrishn Sanmotra
Truth exists, only lies have to be invented. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken. -- Mason Cooley
The truth might hurt but lies hurt even more. -- Rob Liano
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth without love kills, but love without truth lies. -- Eberhard Arnold
You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies. -- Suzette Haden Elgin
When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth. -- George Horace Lorimer
Deliverence from believing lies must by by believing truth. -- Jessie Penn-Lewis
Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth. -- Socrates
TRUTH may hurt temporarily, but LIES leave marks permanently. -- Shiv Khera
Stories are just lies made to look like truth. -- Johnny Rich
The truth of the story lies in the details. -- Paul Auster
Lies Have expiry dates but the truth never expires -- Oche Otorkpa
Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions. -- Herbert Spencer
Truth lies at the confluence of independent streams of evidence. -- Karl Deutsch
I would rather suffer with truth than celebrate with lies. -- Orrin Woodward
Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves. -- Orrin Woodward
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last. -- Greg Evans
Quit Believing in Lies and Always Search For the Truth! -- Charleston Parker
Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies. -- Gautama Buddha
As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies. -- Jessica Khoury
One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The truth [always] lies in things that have no words. -- Dennis Quaid
Words know how to suffocate lies to exhale the truth. -- Munia Khan
The truth just happens - lies take time to make. -- Michael Cudlitz
Plausibility is a trap for the truth laid by lies. -- Yvan Audouard
The motive force of history is truth and not lies. -- Leon Trotsky
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. -- Robertson Davies
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable. -- William McIlvanney
Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies. -- Carol Grace
All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth. -- George Orwell
Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth. -- Peter Sellers
How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are. -- Sergei Lukyanenko
Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams. -- Pier Paolo Pasolini
Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies. -- Nawal El Saadawi
The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies. -- Winston Churchill
Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. -- Pietro Aretino
How do you swallow the truth after a diet of lies? -- Gennifer Albin
Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are. -- Harry Frankfurt
We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss. -- Democritus
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning. -- Dorothy Allison
A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The truth lies in between the 1st and the 40th drink -- Tori Amos
The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth. -- Megan Hart

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