Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

I do not believe in conspiracy theories.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule.

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.

Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

If someone says that they saw a Sasquatch, they're either lying or they are stupid! Now stop lying about the Jewpacabra before stupid people start believing you!

What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked. “I’d think that you were lying,” Vin said. “Have you known me to lie before?” “The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.

Psyche you out?" I repeat. "I'm your FRIEND. I wouldn't do that." He doesn't say anything. I can tell he doesn't believe me-not quite.

Really, according to the shrinks, I am angry at everyone ever. Especially them. I am all anger and resentment all the time. Not one of them has ever suggested that maybe I lie because the world is better the way I tell it.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

We are our own aptest deceiver.

His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?" But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.

Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.

She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

You cannot be serious!

Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting.

Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.

Lie to yourself until it's true.

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.