"It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest."

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"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

William James, American Philosopher

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"Weaklings must lie."

Jean Paul, German Author

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"The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie."

Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

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"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."

Lawrence Durrell, British Writer

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"When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around."

Ken Kesey, American Author

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"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you."

Roger Ebert, American Critic

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"Lying can never save us from another lie."

Vaclav Havel, Czechoslovakian Leader

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"Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either."

Evan Esar, American Writer

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"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."

Adolf Hitler, German Criminal

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"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."

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"The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying."

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"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?"

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"The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day."

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"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."

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"Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague."

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"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."

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"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

"Weaklings must lie."

"The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie."

"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."

"When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around."

"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you."

"Lying can never save us from another lie."

"Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

"Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either."

"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."

Explore more quotes by Norman Douglas

"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."

"The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying."

"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?"

"The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day."

"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."

"Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague."

"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."

"Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty."

"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship."

"Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it."