What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink, thought police, ‘Some animals are more equal than others’—that he embedded in our language and...

Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.

Brendan knew about the truth. In most cases, it was just a matter of deciding whether you wanted to look it in the face or live with the comfort of ignorance and lies. And ignorance...

The best lies to tell,” said Jane, “are the ones people want to believe.

I’m tired of hearing so many lies, please someone would invent a chipset installed on my ear that would block lies!

The wrong information will only lead to deformation

Humanity is a huge aggregate lie, and a huge lie is less than a small truth. Humanity is less, far less than the individual because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity...

But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.

The shape of her smile is curved like a lie, like a boomerang she knows she has to catch quickly when it comes back to her.

After all, the lies did serve to keep something from somebody, and the somebody was us.

Lies have always been easier to invent than reality.

Satan is behind the theory of evolution. Satan hates God and us. Satan is the father of all lies. So he wants nothing more than to make every human being alive believe lies about God,...

Some one remarked that the best way to unite all the nations on this globe would be an attack from some other planet. In the face of such an alien enemy, people would respond with...

Too bad we don’t have marshmallows. This is an amazing fire.” Howard emerged through the smoke behind Edilio.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

The truth may hurt, but lies-they’re vicious. They hide coiled up inside you, ready to strike without warning, without your even knowing they’re there. Until it’s too late.

In the end, there’s only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don’t lie.

We know that the world is not resting on the horn of a bull; we also know that it rests on the horn of lies!

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Truth is ugly that is why we don’t like it

Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.

But nothing in my previous work had prepared me for the experience of reinvestigating Cleveland. It is worth — given the passage of time — recalling the basic architecture of the Crisis: 121 children from...

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

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

Be careful of the lie you believe about yourself, sooner or later, you will be convinced of it.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

If it were true love, he would never make you sacrifice your dignity to be with him. He would respect you and treat you as if you were sacred to his heart. If he loved...

Back then we gave it our all, we neither lied nor made mistakes, we didn’t fail and didn’t do anything wrong.It’s just that…TIME has passed and changed it all.

Do you really think what you read in those books is true? Sure, some of it may be but have you ever actually paid attention to it? It’s all false set upon us as truth....

Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth.

You lying liar,” Vaan said, “who lies to me with lies. Nobody actually likes Shakespeare! They just pretend to sound more cultural and pretentious.

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people believe.

NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.

Tell me right now.

No.” I lied.

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person’s mask.

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

JAY: Why is a story more upfront than life?LENORE: It just seems more honest, somehow.JAY: Honest meaning closer to the truth?LENORE: I smell trap.JAY: I smell breakthrough. The truth is that there’s no difference between...

In the debate over guns, both sides are angry. The pro-gunners are angry at the ignorance, lies, and distortions of the anti-gunners, and the anti-gunners are angry with the pro-gunners for presenting facts.

But may the truth be told. May the true self may be found. May the truth rule the world more than ever. How easy life will be if everyone is just true to themselves, true...

I promise.

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

prison cell” that those lies create.

Una mentira es cuando dices que ha pasado algo que no ha pasado. Pero siempre es una sola cosa la que pasa en un momento determinado y en un sitio determinado. Y hay un número...

Sometimes that’s the only place telling the truth get you, too.

Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.

Never shut off pain till it eats you up completely. Ensure you find someone you can confide in and trust, share your burdens, cry if you need to by letting it all out. No one...

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.