See to it that no one misleads you. Many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He!’ and will mislead many.”Here Christ cautions His present and future disciples from being misled, meaning not to...

One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.

Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will...

It’s been my experience when you lie things work out in such a way that you are obliged to tell many more lies to cover up your first one. It’s so much easier to just...

I have walked a stair of swords,I have worn a coat of scars.I have vowed with hollow words,I have lied my way to the stars-Songs of Sapphique

Reality blithely ignores the lies we tell ourselves about it.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)

Belief in God meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah; and I would not pretend I did not know whether it existed or not.

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.

I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card – the kind that has a satin ribbon on...

My mother’s outh drops. ‘Emmy…don’t say those things Emmy. Remember, we don’t talk about those things.”Yes Mom. I remember. That’s why I’m here, looking like this.’An orderly knocks on the door and announces that visiting...

Don’t even try making out I’m making this up. I’ve got proof. Evidence.

Everybody hates lies even the liars themselves

I don’t know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we’re rocketing along at high velocity.

One doesn’t intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable.

The best lies are always flavoured with the truth but if the substance is rotten, it will stink no matter how much you try to disguise it.

There were lies, and there were lies. Was a secret a lie? If one wanted to protect another?

Repito que… es mentira el cristal con que me miras;es mentira que dude de dudar;es mentira que más de cien mentirasno digan la verdad.

You cannot believe everything you hear

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

It’s a lie, but it’s the lie he needs. I’m going to hell.

America’s intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They’re all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to...

To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at your funeral.

We have to HIDE from each other because we think that we are the only ones BROKEN. We think we’re the only ones whose original selves we ground up and smashed under the jack-booted heel...

Minciunile rasar cu usurinta de pe buzele noastre. Sunt desprinse din ganduri, temeri si sentimente, le folosim pentru a ne ascunde si a manipula, in timp ce adevarul ramane nerostit, o umbra care isi schimba...

Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.

Focus on what’s important. Give more attention to your dreams than your fears, to your now than your then, to your expansive truth than other’s diminishing lies.

That was, in fact, my life. A whole series of reasonable lies.

Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, “When you learn someone else’s secret, your own secrets aren’t safe. Dig up one, release them all.

Maybe, it is just enough to believe with a positive heart that people didn’t let you down. It could be just this: They couldn’t give you the compassion you really wanted based on where their...

What simple andordinary lives we live,underneath the shadowsof projection screenartists

It is more disgraceful for a king to tell lies than anyone else.

I need some space.””Because of my past?””No, because of mine. When I’m around you I feel like I’m falling. I need to stop before I smash into the ground.””Are you always so honest?””No. Mostly I’m...

A wise man once said the fact that everyone lies is a universal truth, the only variable is about what.

People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies.

It felt like all the truth got whitewashed with fake happiness,” she said, “only it was not happy and it was worse than fake. It was dangerous

Truthful hearts have clear blue skies permanently hidden and bound to thrive from the accusing mists of doubts and lies.” ~ Angelica Hopes~ an excerpt from If I Could Tell You

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

Member of medical oversight board for Science Applications International Corp. remote-viewing research in early 1990s.

It was too easy to lie, when you’d practised it a few times. It was hard the first time, but once it flow from your tongue like the perfect summer breeze, and everybody seemed to...

Well the other thing about lying is that the liar is banking on two things when telling the lie. They are hoping that the person being lied to is gullible enough to believe, and it’s...

Never believe the beautiful. Trust me on this.

Be not who you’re not

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

Words are winds.

Nobody’s truly free. Everyone is prisoner to a secret, a sin, a lie. It wasn’t by accident that, in the Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key set the word “free” to a note so high...

But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they’ll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you and never give you your job...

…it argues that true love will triumph in the end (which may or may not be true) but if it’s a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have!