Mark Twain Quotes, Truth Quotes, Lying Quotes

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

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There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.

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The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands

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You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!

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[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

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The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

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Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.

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Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why?

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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

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Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

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The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us; at noon we trample them under foot; and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us.

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That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

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A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.

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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

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The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.

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Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

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When faced with a loss, it is no use trying to recover what has gone. On the other hand, a great space has been opened up in your life - there it lies, empty, waiting to be filled with something new. At the moment of one's loss, contradictory as this might seem, one is being given a large slice of freedom.

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