Ben Carson Quotes

A lie cannot live.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to catch.

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

A half truth is a whole lie.

People tend to say a lot of things that are not true.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

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

Liar' is the best work I've done.

Lying is the rule, not the exception.

I lied all my life.

Everyone has lied for some reason or the other.

Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.

Lies can destroy, but not create.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright 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.

This much is true: you have been lied to.

LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.

The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

Plain lies are dangerous.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.