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#1

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth

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#2

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

92287 likes

#3

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: attributed-no-source, lies, lying, misattributed-mark-twain, statistics, truth

4017 likes

#4

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth

6460 likes

#5

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust

31632 likes

#6

“When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
― Yevgeny Yevtushenko

tags: censorship, lies, lying, silence, truth

1290 likes

#7

“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: self-deception

698 likes

#8

“A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.”
― Alfred Tennyson

tags: deception, lying

716 likes

#9

“Lying is done with words, and also with silence.”
― Adrienne Rich, Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying

tags: dishonesty, lies, silence, words

673 likes

#10

“So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naïve, I feel!”
― Eddie Izzard

tags: america, bill-clinton, clinton, lying, native-americans, president, president-clinton

84 likes

#11

“We need falsifications to make the past inhabitable.”
― Frans Kellendonk, Het Complete Werk

tags: lies, lying, memory, past

29 likes

#12

“Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.”
― Lysander Spooner

tags: lying, media, propaganda, tyranny

214 likes

#13

“and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.”
― C. S. Lewis

tags: action, charge, judgement, lying, truthful

39 likes

#14

“Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, Islanders & The Fisher of Men

tags: culture, lawyers, lies, lying, truth

30 likes

#15

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

tags: inspirational, wonder

4751 likes

#16

“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ”
― Benjamin Disraeli

336 likes

#17

“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

963 likes

#18

“Datta, dayadhvam, damyata
(Give, sympathize, control)”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems

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