All Quotes By Tag: Lies

“I’d rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.”

“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.”

“It is much harder to lie to someone’s face.But.It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone’s face.”

“There were a hundred shades between a truth and lie, and she knew them all.”

“Everyone lies to themselves, but many people do it with good intentions. They want to believe what they tell themselves, it is oftentimes the best possible version of reality for them. Although it may not be accurate, it is a mural of their desires, aspirations, optimism and passion. These people usually either need time or a new experience to discover the truth. People who lie to themselves for different reasons are oftentimes trying to avoid something or escape blame for things they have done.”

“Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.”

“Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.”

“If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.”

“A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.”

“Isn’t strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?”

“All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.”

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself — that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.”

“Life’s wildest moment—she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.”

“You know there’s no such thing as a complete lie. There’s always some truth in there.”

“Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.”