Errol Morris Quotes

When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.

You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.

Your truths are worse than your lies.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

Every edit is a lie.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.

It is not wise to trust a man with a deceitful speech ... for he will definitely manipulate your sayings and give a different meaning to your saying and decisions, for he would not care to keep the truth intact

For a moment, the lie becomes truth.

Don't you ever ask me for a true statement again!

The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.

I freaking hate liars.

I get really upset when I'm around liars.

They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.

I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they're not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people's lives than just truth. I can't stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.

I tend to be a fairly spirited person, but I've never hated anyone more than I hated Christian Longo after his trial, when I realized his guilt and that I had been partially duped.

I lied all my life.