Aleister Crowley Quotes

Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed.

I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?

I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

It is the oldest story in the coverage of Government: The failure to tell the truth.

In Washington telling the truth is a gaff.

Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.

The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.

What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass. It is the core of our careers, the endgame of every move we make, and we pursue it with strategies painstakingly constructed of lies and concealment and every variation on deception.

the best lie is wrapped around a core of truth

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

If you have something to say and say nothing, you are really telling a lie.

The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

Man seems to be an animal whose capacity for lies is only equalled by his credulity; it does no good to let battalions of cats outof bags, to produce whole harems of naked facts, people eat the same three meals daily deception, and are always ready to turn with fury upon the purveyors of bagless cats and facts undraped. Probably their instinct is wise. Who knows?

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

I don’t see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.

Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are certain lies which may constitute a far better and more secure foundation of happiness. There are people who perish when their eyes are opened.

People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid.

Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.