Thomas Sowell Quotes

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

I lied all my life.

Everyone has lied for some reason or the other.

Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

A lie cannot live.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

I don't like people who hide things.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

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

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

A lie never lives to be old.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

I've never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.

I don't like being lied to.

Avoid the company of a liar. And if you can't avoid him, don't believe him.

If somebody is going to hand me a load of BS, I feel obliged to call attention to the steaming pile