Lie Quotes

One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.

Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.

For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.

No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no longer seek it as an end in itself.

Whenever I wake up, I’m up. I don’t lie there like an idiot. I get up, run up a hill, get some exercise, and have some time with my thoughts.