Errol Morris Quotes

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie?

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false.

After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.

I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.

Any lie should be as close to the truth as possible.

Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.

The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

Do not talk about the soul, heaven, or God. Talking about something that is not yet a reality for you amounts to falsehood.

Know that Truth sees through bullshit. So if you can't handle looking at Truth, you must be a Devil's culprit.

The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Jon lied ... loudly, as if that could make it true.

Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.

Liars are experts in chopping logic and missing the truth slightly - 'Did God say not to eat from any tree?' In order to pin a liar down, words must be defined in the most careful manner available.

the best lie is wrapped around a core of truth