Lewis Hine Quotes

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.

We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?

To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.

For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Working as a journalist, I was always tempted to lie. I felt I could do dialogue better than the person I was interviewing. I felt I could lie better than Nixon and be more concise than some random person I was covering.

It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore.

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

Lying is a widespread habit among the Arabs and they have a low idea of truth.... The Arab has no scruples about lying if by it he obtains his objective.... He is more interested in feeling than facts, in conveying an impression than in giving a report.

Politicians learn to turn the truth into something that they want the truth to be.

Figures won’t lie but liars will figure.

It is perhaps being economical with the truth.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

When politics comes in the door, truth goes out the window.

A falsehood, to have its full and lasting effect, must contain a fraction of a grain of truth.

If you have the ability to convince somebody of something that you don't necessarily think is the case, it's a valuable asset. Not that I'm, like, a pathological liar, but we spend most of the day not fully being honest, you know?

So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.

Truth is seldom appreciated and never understood, whereas a flattering lie is always appreciated and instantly understood.