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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
Alexander Haig
We like to be deceived.
Blaise Pascal
By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.
Immanuel Kant
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
Joseph Addison
None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
Johann von Goethe
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Ceslaw Milosz
Liars need to have good memories.
Algernon Sidney
As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
Oscar Wilde
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
Matilda told such dreadful lies,It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes;Her aunt, who from her earliest youth,Had kept a strict regard for truth,Attempted to believe Matilda:The effort very nearly killed her.
Hilaire Belloc, Cautionary Tales
Don't lie if you don't have to.
Leo Szilard
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Elizabeth Bowen
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Tacitus
Thought is generally considered to be a sober and weighty business. But here it is being suggested that creative play is an essential element in forming new hypotheses and ideas. Indeed, thought which tries to avoid play is in fact playing false with itself. Play, it appears, is the very essence of thought.This notion of falseness that can creep into play of thought is shown in the etymology of the words illusion, delusion, and collusion, all of which have as their Latin root ludere, to play. So illusion implies playing false with perception; delusion, playing false with thought; collusion, playing false together in order to support each other's illusions and delusions. When thought plays false, the thinker may occasionally recognize this fact, and express it in the above words.co-authored with F. David Peat
David Bohm, Science, Order, and
This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
The Talmud
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
H. L. Mencken
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
Johann G. Seume
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.Often attributed to Mark Twain; Quoted in Mark Twain, Autobiography, ch. 29, (1924), his exact words were:
Benjamin Disraeli
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
Albert Einstein
