Quotes on Lies
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.
Abraham Lincoln
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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
Lyman Beecher
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Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man, and silence is necessary in order to surmount it. A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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It is better to have a thief than a liar working for you, because at least you can watch a thief.
Larry Winget
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No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln
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Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin
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Honesty is more than telling the truth. It means not keeping secrets. Not only does secrecy isolate people from each other, but when you're hiding something, it's rarely good. It's usually something about which you are embarrassed or ashamed. It is a weakness.
Meg Meeker
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It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Mark Twain
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Honest people are a refuge: You know they mean what they say; you know they will not say one thing to your face and another behind your back; you know they will tell you when they think you have failed—and for this reason their praise cannot be mistaken for mere flattery.
Sam Harris
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Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.
Sam Harris
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By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make—and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.
Sam Harris
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To lie is to intentionally mislead others when they expect honest communication.
Sam Harris
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