Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

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

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

People love to yammer on about things that aren't real.

No one who lives in error is free.

The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived.

People tend to say a lot of things that are not true.

The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

The world loves to be deceived.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Truth is always a delusion.

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.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

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

As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

The world wants to be deceived.