Om Malik Quotes

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

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

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

Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

The world makes liars of us all.

It is no use lying to one's self.

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.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.

Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Liars sometimes tell the truth; they don’t tell lies all the time.

People deny things that are true all the time.

No lie can live forever.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else.

A falsehood in which some truth is not stated at the beginning, cannot be maintained in the end.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

I can deal with imperfection, but I can't deal with people who lie to themselves and lie to the world to make the world feel better.

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

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.