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If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.
Oct 1, 2025
I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.
The truth is more important than the facts.
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
Who lies for you will lie against you.
I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.
I feel like the American people are being lied to and manipulated. President Bush is trying to force 9/11 and Saddam together.
A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.
As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.
We are just coming out of a 100-year stupor from being lied to by the tobacco industry for a century about the effects on young people, on cancer, these candy cigarettes that they promised had nothing to do with kids, Joe Camel that they promised was focused on the, you know, 55-year-old white male smoker, which we know is wrong. And we finally got out of that. Why in the world would we want to create the same thing, just not Big Tobacco this time, Big Marijuana?
People do not like being lied to, and they do not like having their rights violated. So as soon as [officials] stop making arguments, you see support for me starts to rise.
You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
And she did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was sustained attention; he must care about her to fabricate so elaborately and over such a long stretch of time. His deceit was a form of tribute to the importance of their marriage.
People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.
The worst thing about being lied to, is realizing they don't think you're worth the truth.
Don't yield to Satan's lie that you don't have time to study the scriptures. Choose to take time to study them. Feasting on the word of God each day is more important than sleep, school, work, television shows, video games, or social media. You may need to reorganize your priorities to provide time for the study of the word of God. If so, do it!
The less time you spend with Truth, the easier it is to believe lies.
We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.
American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
I don't like being lied to.
Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important.
I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced his son had been dishonest regarding an issue, Cosby promised that if he told him the truth, he would not hit him. When his son did confess, Cosby did hit him. Seeing his son's shock and hurt, Cosby said he hoped this lesson had deepened his understanding of the anguish generated by a sense betrayal.
To be young and aware is to know you’re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is possible; to know that we can reimagine the world, rebuild our cities, redesign our lives, retool our factories, distribute innovation and creativity and all live in a world that is not only better than the alternative, but much better than the world we have now.
The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever been committed on American soil. We bear witness that the worst crime, the worst tragedy, that has ever taken place on American soil is not September 11th. It's not the twin towers. It's the holocaust that black folks been dealing with for 400 years.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.