George Santayana Quotes

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Donald Trump treats the truth like a second home. He doesn't always live there.

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.

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.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

A lie cannot live.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

I dated a guy for over a year who lied about his age the entire time. I found out after the fact and couldn't believe it! I even threw him a birthday party for the wrong age... I couldn't get over how hard he had tried to keep it a secret!

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

The certainty with which Cameron informed MPs and Shadow ministers of the specifics of a Labour offer that never actually existed suggests a degree of flexibility with the truth.

A lie never lives to be old.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.