Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Quotes about Truth and Lie


Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go away.

-Elvis Presley

 

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

 -Albert Einstein

 

You're putting words in my mouth, just the way you put artificial facts in your head!

-David Letterman

 

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

-Thomas Jefferson

 

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbor.

- Jonathan Swift

 

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

-Socrates

 

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

-Henry Fielding

 

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

-Aristotle

 

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile (1 Peter 3:10).

-Bible

 

The evils of the body are, murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse, and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred, and error.

-Buddha

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