Believing lies can distort your perception of life and your understanding of certain situations. These quotes about believing lies help to shed light on the long term effects and trouble it can bring into your life.
“A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.”
“A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.”
“A lie cannot live.”
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
“Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.”
“Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.”
“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him.”
“He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.”
“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
“I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.”
“I don’t like lies … Not even lies of omission. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.”
“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
“I’m not upset that you lied to me; I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
“If someone’s lying about something small, you don’t know what else they’re lying about. I’m a big girl, I can handle the truth—even if it’s not good news.”
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
“Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some.”
“Lies are like cockroaches, for every one you discover there are many more that are hidden.”
“Lies don’t fix things. They don’t even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.”
“Lies were like acid, corrosive: They could dissolve trust in a heartbeat.”
“Lying can never save us from another lie.”
“Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.”
“Lying is done with words, and also with silence.”
“Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.”
“My father always told me that what’s wrong with lying is that it’s an admission of weakness. If you’re the strongest, you can afford to tell the truth.”
“Never argue with someone who believes their own lies.”
“Never try to destroy someone else’s life with a lie when yours can be destroyed with the truth.”
“Oh, I love to lie. That’s one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn’t possibly be true.”
“Regardless of how far a person runs, a lie will eventually catch up to them.”
“Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.”
“Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.”
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
“The essence of a lie is the intention to deceive.”
“The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.”
“The most mischievous liars are those who keep on the verge of truth.”
“The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.”
“The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good.”
“The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.”
“Understand that the tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes–never!”
“Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it’s really like magic because you transform reality for people.”
“When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.”
“Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.”
“Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good.”
“You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can’t escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.”
When you believe lies and reject the truth, you are only feeding into the falsehood that is happening around you.
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