A willful falsehood told is a cripple, not able to stand by itself without another to support it. It is easy to tell a lie, but harder to tell only one lie.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for a trickster and catch him at first attempt, but beware of an honest man.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.

It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.

Everything you said should be true but not everything true should be said.

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.

To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.

If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.