“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”
Source: On The Heavens
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“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.”
Source: Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker
Source: The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)
Source: Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition
“Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.”
“A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.”
“Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.”
Source: Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor
“Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.”
“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
“Children and fools always speak the truth”
Source: The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories
Source: Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community
“A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”
Source: Needful Things
“O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”
“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.”
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
Source: Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts
“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
Source: Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review
Source: To Green Angel Tower
“The truth is more important than the facts.”
Source: Letters to Architects
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
Source: That Was Then, This Is Now
“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.”
Source: Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls
“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths.”
“The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.”
Source: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense
“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
Source: Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel
“Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.”
“And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.”
Source: The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson