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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anything is better than lies and deceit!
topics: deceit , honesty , lies , lying  
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George MacDonald
In thy foul throat thou liest.
topics: evil , lying  
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C.S. Lewis
and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
You think it’s because they’re lying? Nonsense! I like it when people lie! Lying is man’s only privilege over all other organisms. If you lie--you get to the truth! Lying is what makes me a man. Not one truth has ever been reached without first lying fourteen times or so, maybe a hundred and fourteen, and that’s honorable in its way; well, but we can’t even lie with our own minds! Lie to me, but in your own way, and I’ll kiss you for it. Lying in one’s own way is almost better than telling the truth in someone else’s way; in the first case you’re a man, and in the second—no better than a bird! The truth won’t go away, but life can be nailed shut; there are examples. Well, so where are we all now? With regard to science, development, thought, invention, ideals, aspirations, liberalism, reason, experience, and everything, everything, everything, we’re all, without exception, still sitting in the first grade! We like getting by on other people’s reason--we’ve acquired a taste for it! Right? Am I right?
topics: inspirational , lying , man  
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wer sich selbst belügt und seine eigenen Lügen anhört, kommt schließlich soweit, dass er keine Wahrheit mehr, weder in sich noch außer sich, zu erkennen vermag [...]
topics: honesty , lying  
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Above all, avoid lying, especially lying to yourself. Keep watching out for your lies, watch for them every hour, every minute. Also avoid disgust, both for others and yourself: whatever strikes you as disgusting within yourself is cleansed by the mere fact that you notice it. Avoid fear, too, although fear is really only a consequence of lies. Never be afraid of your petty selfishness when you try to achieve love and don’t be too alarmed if you act badly on occasion.
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G.K. Chesterton
There's one thing you may be sure of, Pip," said Joe, after some rumination, "namely, that lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, and work round to the same. Don't you tell no more of 'em, Pip. That ain't the way to get out of being common, old chap. And as to being common, I don't make it out at all clear. You are oncommon in some things. You're oncommon small. Likewise you're a oncommon scholar." "No, I am ignorant and backward, Joe." "Why, see what a letter you wrote last night! Wrote in print even! I've seen letters––Ah! and from gentlefolks!––that I'll swear weren't wrote in print," said Joe. "I have learnt next to nothing, Joe. You think much of me. It's only that." "Well, Pip," said Joe, "be it so or be it son't, you must be a common scholar afore you can be a oncommon one, I should hope!
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C.S. Lewis
And once when we were walking on Bredon Hill, we met a bedraggled and exhausted fox. 'Oh, poor thing,' Jack said. 'What shall we do when the hunt comes up? I can already hear them. Oh, I know -- I have an idea.' He cupped his hands and shouted to the first riders, "Hallo, yoicks, gone that way," and pointed in the direction opposite to the one the fox had taken. The whole hunt followed his directions. There followed a long discussion about when lying was morally justifiable, but he boasted delightedly later to my wife that he had saved the life of a poor fox and showed no trace of guilt.
topics: lying  
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
I love it when people lie! Lying is only man's privilege over all other organisms. Lying is what makes me a man.
topics: humanness , lying , truth  
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. It sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn't it? And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked on a word and made a mountain out of a pea--he knows all of that, and still he is the first to take offense, he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, and thus he reaches the point of real hostility
topics: honesty , lying , offense  
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Bono
It's not enough to rage against the lie...you've got to replace it with the truth.
Bono  
topics: Lying , Truth  
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Francis Quarles
Let the greatest part of the news thou nearest be the least part of what thou believest; lest the greatest part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true. Where lies are easily admitted, the father of lies will not easily be kept out.
topics: Lying  
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Henry Ward Beecher
Whatever is only almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is the more likely to lead astray.
topics: Lying  
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John C. Maxwell
If you're lying, you're lying.
topics: Lying  
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Thomas Fuller
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 hard to tell only one lie.
topics: Lying  
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C.S. Lewis
A little lie is like a little pregnancy-it doesn't take long before everyone knows.
topics: Lying , Humorous  
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
topics: Lying  
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Horatius Bonar
All unbelief is the belief of a lie.
topics: Lying , Unbelief  
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John Owen
The best duties of unbelievers are but white lies.
John Owen  
topics: Unbelief , Lying  
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Thomas Fuller
"They say so" is half a lie.
topics: Lying  
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