TRUTH or DECEIT

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Truth or Deceit

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! Sir Walter Scott

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Mark Twain

Truth is beautiful and enduring. Plato

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. George Bernard Shaw

Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

The amount of expertise varies in inverse ratio to the number of statements understood by the general public.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Mark Twain

The truth will ouch.Arnold H. Glasgow

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second time. Thomas Jefferson

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing. Anatole France

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Bierce

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

There is no relationship between truth and fact.

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy. Benjamin Stolberg

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats

I never do any mistakes.

Thieves, liars and snitches are a dyin' breed.

An honest Man is the noblest work of God. Alexander Pope

I walk slowly, but I never walk backwards. Abraham Lincoln

Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor. Robert Frost

Nothing is true that compels us to make it exclusive. Albert Camus