Quotes or Sayings About Lies and Lying (page 2)

jgnat

Did I kill the thread? I was looking forward to more...

Mac

"yea,,, yea, that's the ticket." Tommy Fanaegon (spelling?)

mac

blondie

Say not, ''I have found the truth,'' but rather, ''I have found a truth."

Kahlil Gibran

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Socrates

It is not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.

Alexander Haig

Wolfy

Here's some more,

"The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie" Hilaire Belloc-The Silence of the Sea

"Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have" Elizabeth Bowen(1899-1973)-The House in Paris

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place"H.L Mencken-Prejudices

"He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar"Nietzsche-Nachgelassene Fragmente

"You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time; but you can't fool all the people all the time"Abraham Lincoln

"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time"James Thurber-The Owl Who Was God

"Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualitites which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep"Samuel Johnson-The Rambler

"He led a double life. Did that make him a liar? He did not feel a liar. He was a man of two truths" Iris Murdoch-The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

"That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought wih outright, but a lie which is part truth is a harder matter to fight." Lord Tennyson-The Grandmother

"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent" William Blake-Auguries of Innocence

"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it" G.K. Chesterton -The Man who was Orthodox

Wolfy

Elsewhere

I saw "Quotes" and thought: "Quotes!"

http://quotes.jehovahswitnesses.com/lie.htm

*** Watchtower 1957 May 1 pp.285-286 Use Theocratic War Strategy ***
A WITNESS of Jehovah was going from house to house in Eastern Germany when she met a violent opposer. Knowing at once what to expect she changed her red blouse for a green one in the very next hallway. No sooner had she appeared on the street than a Communist officer asked her if she had seen a woman with a red blouse. No, she replied, and went on her way. Did she tell a lie? No, she did not. She was not a liar. Rather, she was using theocratic war strategy, hiding the truth by action and word for the sake of the ministry.
... Lies are untruths told for selfish reasons and which work injury to others. Satan told a lie to Eve that worked great harm to her and all the human race. Ananias and Sapphira told lies for selfish reasons. But hiding the truth, which he is not entitled to know, from an enemy does not harm him , especially when he would use such information to harm others who are innocent.
A great work is being done by the witnesses even in lands where their activity is banned. The only way they can fulfill the command to preach the good news of God's kingdom is by use of theocratic war strategy. By underground methods the literature is brought into the country and distributed. Would it make sense to hide this literature by one's actions and then reveal its whereabouts by one's words when queried? Of course not! So in time of spiritual warfare it is proper to misdirect the enemy by hiding the truth . It is done unselfishly; it does not harm anyone; on the contrary, it does much good.

Big Tex

*** Watchtower 1957 May 1 pp.285-286 Use Theocratic War Strategy ***
A WITNESS of Jehovah was going from house to house in Eastern Germany when she met a violent opposer. Knowing at once what to expect she changed her red blouse for a green one in the very next hallway. No sooner had she appeared on the street than a Communist officer asked her if she had seen a woman with a red blouse. No, she replied, and went on her way. Did she tell a lie? No, she did not. She was not a liar. Rather, she was using theocratic war strategy, hiding the truth by action and word for the sake of the ministry.
... Lies are untruths told for selfish reasons and which work injury to others. Satan told a lie to Eve that worked great harm to her and all the human race. Ananias and Sapphira told lies for selfish reasons. But hiding the truth, which he is not entitled to know, from an enemy does not harm him , especially when he would use such information to harm others who are innocent.
A great work is being done by the witnesses even in lands where their activity is banned. The only way they can fulfill the command to preach the good news of God's kingdom is by use of theocratic war strategy. By underground methods the literature is brought into the country and distributed. Would it make sense to hide this literature by one's actions and then reveal its whereabouts by one's words when queried? Of course not! So in time of spiritual warfare it is proper to misdirect the enemy by hiding the truth . It is done unselfishly; it does not harm anyone; on the contrary, it does much good.

Iwasyoungonce

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

-Aesop "The Sheperd's Boy"

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

-Samuel Butler

One Lies more to one's self than to anyone else.

-Lord Byron

I loath like Hell's gate the man who thinks one thing and says another.

-HOMER

Boys, I may not know much, but I know the difference between chicken shit and chicken salad.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

For a long time I have not said what I believed nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.

-MACHIAVELLI

There are three essentinal elements to a lie: the material must be untrue; it must be known to be untrue; and it must be told with the intention to deceive.

-TERENCE H. QUALTER

Lying is done with words, and also with silence.

-Adrienne Rich

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Is there a limit to the # of quotes that anyone wants?????????????

blondie

Boys, I may not know much, but I know the difference between chicken shit and chicken salad.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

Now there is one that resonates with me!

Blondie(mentally filing this one for use in the future)

Iwasyoungonce

A man whose word will not inform you at all what he means or will do, is not a man you can bargin with. You must get out of that man's way, or put him out of yours!

-Thomas Carlyle

No one ever lies. People often do what they have to do to make their story sound right.

Willam H. Ginsburg

The more lies are told, the more important it becomes for the liars to justify themselves by deep moral commitments to high-sounding objectives that mask the pursuit of money and power.

-Bertram Gross

Hey, does anyone have a talk transcript on LIES? I recall my father would give many talks in other congregations and one of his talks was on lies, and it spoke of lies and that there were no WHITE LIES cause lies have no colour! I think it also spoke of Theocratic lies as well.

Beans

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