When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
Yevgeny YevtushenkoTag: truth lies silence censorship lying
The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.
SenecaTag: science truth knowledge lies time memory propoganda research astronomy diligence discoveries disinformation misinformation
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
Tim O'BrienTag: truth lies writing on-fiction fiction
For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.
Milan KunderaIf it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
W. Somerset MaughamTag: lies self-deception lying
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
Khaled HosseiniTag: truth art books deception lies writing on-fiction fiction novels plot weaving
lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.
Giacomo CasanovaTruth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure
Francis BaconTag: truth lies entertainment
Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!
Sidney HowardWe need falsifications to make the past inhabitable.
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