Jodi Picoult Quotes

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

There is a lot of spinning and a lot of lying in our times—in politics, in government, in sports and everywhere. It’s gotten to the point where … you no longer believe the first version of anything. It wasn’t always that way. I guess it started for me with Vietnam, when the establishment felt it had to lie to justify a policy that as it turned out was never going to work.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.

We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.

There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.

I do believe that is a template that I stick very strongly to to tell the truth in an increasing swelter of lies and misinformation and disinformation.

The worst thing about being lied to, is realizing they don't think you're worth the truth.

The world makes liars of us all.

They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.