Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

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.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

I don't lie," I lied.

I think first we have to begin by telling the truth, which I think has actually been a big stumbling block. We can look at Donald Trump and see how he lies, but I think we also have to look at some of the lies we've told ourselves and the lies we've accepted and internalized ourselves.

I know my lies are always wishes.

The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn't either of them. And I just figured they're irrelevant.

The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it... though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces. (a servant in the House of Black and White)

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.

The best lies about me are the ones I told.

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.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

We are our own aptest deceiver.

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

It is no use lying to one's self.

Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don't know they're telling them, the truths people reveal when they think they're lying, then you can start to build a world.

A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.