I don’t ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do.-Greg House

A story is just a convoluted lie…with some hidden truths.

You were gullible,” he said. And then, “When you were really little, you hated carrots. You wouldn’t eat them. But then I told you that if you ate carrots, you’d get X-ray vision. And you...

If I told you I don’t tell lies, that itself would be a lie.

If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are...

When an orphan is depressed,” wrote Wilbur Larch, “he is attracted to telling lies. A lie is at least a vigorous enterprise, it keeps you on your toes by making you suddenly responsible for what...

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All counterfeits, as from truth’s sacred mint,Are readily believed if once put down in print

The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make...

There is beauty in truth, even if it’s painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen...

You can’t lie in a magical forest! It will ruin all the magic!

She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.

The best lies about me are the ones I told.

In a world of stupidity a thinking man is insane

from: The Portrayal of Child Sexual Assault in Introductory Psychology Textbooks – Elizabeth J. Letourneau, Tonya C. LewisOne of the central questions surrounding the debate on memories of CSA is how often false or repressed...

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.Speech is born out of longing,True description from the real taste.The one who tastes, knows;the one who explains, lies.How can you describe the true form of SomethingIn whose...

The truth hurts but a lie will eventually as well

If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the...

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are...

You know your testimony is strong when your roots are so deep that other people’s storms will never knock you over.

Eyes shows lies.

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

Jan Hindman knows all too well that people who have lied for decades about their offending would lie to her about being victimized as a child, so she compared the reports of abuse by child...

REJECT THE LIES AND VIOLENCE. STAND FOR LOVE, TRUTH, DECENCY AND THE COMMON GOOD.

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...

Mm. Those are some of the best lies.

Whenever you get an appetite, you feed yourself. Therefore, fill your belly on wisdom of things old and new. Only swallow the truth, less you choke on the lies.

You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say ‘God is love,’ they will claim that...

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind … is the one fundamental treason which the scholar’s mind must not...

Deceit for personal gain is one of history’s most recurring crimes. Man’s first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before...

I don’t like to tell lies.

Many truths which are not believed are called lies,’ the Laughing Beast said. ‘Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been enchanted. Ordinary mirrors merely reflect what is revealed to them. People lie and...

Love is the color of red inverted. At least that’s what Gunnar Greenlove told me, and I believe him because he’s from an island where half the people tell only the truth and half tell...

But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.

a rumor is only true, if you get offended.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of home, by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she...

I’m great at lying to myself.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn’t change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

Perception is the lie that we convince ourselves exists

There are different ways to be confused about how someone’s disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it...

A man protects his fish from rats by keeping it under a cat’s watch. How wise!Another buys a gun for security reasons, but decides to kill a ghost with it. How smart!One prays to God...

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.

How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can’t see the image of God?

I lie constantly. All the time. I’m nothing but one big mass of lies.

Because if we were all created idealists, then life was bound to be one relentless disappointment. But then, there was also music. We unlearned the lies with one hand and repeated them with the other.

I’ve learned that sometimes a smile represents the greatest form of deceit.

Those suffering from terminal falsehood seek out each other, like a drunk seeks out a wall so that he doesn’t fall down.

Lies can be formed from truth, but truth cannot be formed from lies.