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“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”

Knows Mean Doe Lying Religion Order Speak Leadership Destruction Mere Lawyer Liars Portions Deceiving Deceptive Craftsman

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause. If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and loose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well - in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit.”

People Ifs Knows Wells May Mean Persons Spirit Lying Fall Speak Strong Grows Causes Acting Situation Influence Benefits Sight Shame Conviction Reactions Objectives Liberation Confused

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation.”

Running Lying Speak Nations Sin Bible Including Ads Homosexuality

Author:Reggie White

“Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.”

People Believe Lying Speak Leader Speak The Truth

Author:Orrin Woodward

“Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.”

People Thinking May Lying Speak Gains Speak The Truth

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons, places, and events which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say, There! That's the truth!”

Knows Way Writing Persons Done Moments Truth Lying Desire Speak Deals Emotion Fiction Events Details Length Peculiar Packs Inventing Fiction Writers Devious

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint for us scores and scores of his manifestly impossible pictures... and Shakespeare will lie to us of fabulous islands far past 'the still-vex'd Bermoothes,' and bring us fresh tales from the coast of Bohemia. For no one will speak the truth there, and we shall all be perfectly happy.”

Ifs Stills Past Lying Speak Impossible Paint Tales Islands Paradise Score Liars Coast Fabulous Exaggeration Speak The Truth Raphael Vex Bohemia

Author:James Branch Cabell

“It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from 'the wise man's mouth' but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.”

Knows Men Lying Speak Differences Wise Subjects Mouths Substance Folly Speak The Truth

Book:Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship

Source: Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship

“You who are dead ... tonight you will disport yourselves for my pleasure. Food and wine will pass between your dead lips, though you will not taste it. Your dead stomachs will hold it within you, while your dead feet take the measure of a dance. Your dead mouths will speak words that will have no meaning to you, and you will embrace one another without pleasure. You will sing for me if I wish it. You will lie down again when I will it.... Let the revelry begin.”

Ifs Lying Speak Wish Pleasure Feet Taste Mouths Wine Embrace Lips Tonight Within You Food And Wine Revelry

Author:Roger Zelazny

“A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.”

“We may talk of the best means of doing good; but, after all, the greatest difficulty lies in doing it in a proper spirit. Speak- the truth in love, "in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves" - with the meekness and gentleness of Christ.”

May Mean Spirit Lying Speak Christ Difficulty Gentleness Doing Good Speak The Truth Meekness

Author:Asahel Nettleton

“It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. There is only one Gospel.”

Lying Speak Hurt United Comfort Succeed Errors Heal Hated Telling The Truth Divided Falsehood Multitudes Speak The Truth Stand Alone

Author:Adrian Rogers

“It is the assumption of this book that there is a typical human nature. It is the aim of this book to seek it. Just like a surgeon, a psychiatrist can make all sorts of basic assumptions when a patient lies down upon the couch. He can assume that the patient knows what it means to love, to envy, to trust, to think, to speak, to fear, to smile, to bargain, to covet, to dream, to remember, to sing, to quarrel, to lie. The 'smile' of a baboon is a threat; the smile of a man is a sign of pleasure: it is human nature, the world over.”

“Particular lies may speak a general truth.”

May Lying Speak Particular

Book:Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

“With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!”

Lying Speak Peace Unions Falsehood Brutal Grounded Lethargy

Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.”

Men Humans Children Age Lying Speak Chance Human Beings Mere Extraordinary Old Man

Book:La vieillesse

Source: La vieillesse

“As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.”

Home Would Be Lying Speak Felt Heard Conversation Flow Dull Telling The Truth Considering Boast Exaggerating

Author:Bernard Berenson

“The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power, which, to speak according to our own feelings, renews its strength, and, without reference to joy or sorrow, follows eternal laws which are imposed by a higher Power.”

Has Beens Character Feelings Law Joy Lying Speak Natural Sea Higher Sorrow Eternal Traits Treacherous Higher Power Deceitful

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.”

World God Lying Speak Silence

Book:Where Your Treasure Is: Psalms that Summon You from Self to Community

Source: Where Your Treasure Is: Psalms that Summon You from Self to Community

“Near the centre of that State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical definitions, of mountains and valleys.”

Book Country States Lying Speak Greater New York Mountain Definitions Surface Hills Valleys Centre Succession Deference Mountains And Valleys

Author:James F. Cooper

“There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.”

Ifs Men Giving Action Lying Speak Honor Prove Reports Flattery

Author:Owen Feltham

“The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers.”

Hard Bigs Lying Speak Hard Work Workers Idle Toil Hard Worker

Author:Rosemary Radford Ruether

“Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Saddam Hussein will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great honour and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts.”

Men Heart Eye Lying Speak President Integrity Iraq Honour Tolerate Saddam Forbidden Hussein Truthfulness

Author:Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

“I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, Go antickly, and show outward hideousness, And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst; And this is all.”

Ifs Knows Shows Might Lying Speak Hurt Half Enemy Boys Fashion Dangerous Rings Dozen Boast Slander Scruples Cogs

Book:Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night

Source: Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night

“When we're in the middle of a difficult time, we have to speak against that lie that says, "God is not here." We have to draw near to God.”

Lying Speak Difficult Middle Draws Difficult Times

Author:Max Lucado

“Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.”

Hard Lying Speak Heaven Grief Cry Mines Stones Dear Grieving Spheres Darling

Author:Petrarch