Lies Truth Quotes (page 14)

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• beautiful
• age
• earth

Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were fill'd with your most high deserts? Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb Which hides your life and shows not half your parts. If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say 'This poet lies: Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.' So should my papers yellow'd with their age Be scorn'd like old men of less truth than tongue, And your true rights be term'd a... William Shakespeare

• lies
• lied
• agree upon

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon. Friedrich Nietzsche

• lies
• sometimes
• question

Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth. Jodi Picoult

• lies
• enough
• mattered

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth. John F. Kennedy

• lies
• faith
• believe

Believe these truths as you believe any other statements, for the difference between ordinary faith and saving faith lies mainly in the subjects in which it is placed. Charles Spurgeon

• lies
• part
• lied

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent wort the truth Jean-Paul Sartre

• passed away
• pain
• lost

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. That's a running sore. John Steinbeck

• lies
• bad
• inventive

The prince's robes and beggar's rags, Are toadstools on the miser's bags. A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent William Blake

• lies
• personality
• heart

Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart. Jodi Picoult

• time
• age
• lies

And so they would go on talking or rather, understanding, which has become the main art of speech in an age when words are growing daily so scanty in comparison with ideas that ‘the biscuits ran out’ has to stand for kissing a negress in the dark when one has just read Bishop Berkeley’s philosophy for the tenth time. (And from this it follows that only the most profound masters of style can tell the truth, and when one meets a simple one–syllable writer, one may conclude, without any doubt at... Virginia Woolf

• hurt
• lies
• manly

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie John Steinbeck

• lies
• men
• die

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for. Terry Prachett

• lies
• enough
• often

If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. Joseph Goebbels

• life
• past
• world

... Such a scribe you pay and praise for putting life in stones, Fire into fog, making the past your world. There's plenty of 'How did you contrive to grasp The thread which led you through this labyrinth? How build such solid fabric out of air? How on so slight foundation found this tale, Biography, narrative?' or, in other words, How many lies did it require to make The portly truth you here present us with? Robert Browning

• love
• great
• inspirational

In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid. Andrew Sullivan