A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
– Thomas Mann
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- Earlier People used to hate a lieSince now lie has become truth and truth has become a lie.They still hate a lie – irrfan ishaq
- He felt the quicksand of failure sucking at his feet, threatening to bury him, to drown him.Jeana E. Mann. Intoxicated (Kindle Location 2125). – Jeana E Mann
- If you pull a rope and some duct tape out of those saddlebags, I’m going to freak.Jeana E. Mann. Intoxicated (Kindle Locations 746-747). – Jeana E Mann
- To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long. – Anurag Shourie
- A Lie is something like the truth, but the truth is not like a Lie. – Dan Raper
- Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact. – Cormac McCarthy
- The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it. – Arthur Koestler
- Some people say it’s easy to lie. This may be true for them, but the hard part is remembering the lie because a lie has no memory. – Virginia Vayna
- True love will triumph in the end-”which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have. – John Green
- Lie. Lie. Lie. But remember.Move. Move. While others sleep, move. – Anthony ONeill
- If i believe my truth is true and you believe your truth is true,what if my truth says yours is a lie.is it still true? – Lecrea
- War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. – Thomas Mann
- Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ? – Thomas Mann
- Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless? – Thomas Mann
- Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone. – Thomas Mann
- At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment. – Thomas Mann
- Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. – Thomas Mann
- It’s every American’s duty to support his government but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed. – Thomas C Mann
- He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means. – Thomas E Mann
- The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge. – Thomas Mann
- Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject – Thomas Mann
- How can I free myself from sexuality? Eat nothing but rice? – Thomas Mann
- Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. – Thomas Mann
- For the sake of goodness and love, man shall grant death no dominion over his thoughts. – Thomas Mann
- Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. – Horace Mann
- In a war of truth and lie, lie retreats always with shame and pity. – Ehsan Sehgal
- Liars don’t lie to those who are innocent, they lie to those who know the truth – Aireen C Pontillo
- The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they don’t really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie. – Seanan McGuire
- Because though women lie when they have to and men lie all the time, the mirror always tells the truth. – Jane Yolen
- Words lie. Actions can lie too. Consistency speaks the truth. – Trent Shelton
- Truth is a matter of PerspectiveThere will be my truth and your truth and as Universal truth doesn’t exist. – George Orwell
- Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. – James E Faust
- God gave us His Word so we could know truth. His truth. The whole truth. And nothing but the truth. – Patty Houser
- If the truth gets in the way, I will remove it. But truth be told, removing the truth never removes the truth. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two. – Steven Pinker
- False assurances were certainly more harmful than none at all. – Chris Womersley
- It is inevitable that there will come a time when mankind will go out more at night and stay indoors during the day to avoid harmful solar rays. – Nabil N Jamal
- I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we’re about to do something harmful, to someone else. – Margaret Atwood