Untruths QUOTES

1 " Not all deceptions are palatable. Untruths are too easy to come by, too quickly exploded, too cheap and ephemeral to give lasting comfort. Mundus vult decipi, but there is a hierarchy of deceptions.
Near the bottom of the ladder is journalism: a steady stream of irresponsible distortions that most people find refreshing although on the morning after, or at least within a week, it will be stale and flat.
On a higher level we find fictions that men eagerly believe, regardless of the evidence, because they gratify some wish.
Near the top of the ladder we encounter curious mixtures of untruth and truth that exert a lasting fascination on the intellectual community. "

― Walter Kaufmann

2 " The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality. "

― Cortney S. Warren , Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception

3 " If untruths become part of our language—untruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speech—then each person is left to decide for themselves the meaning of any sentence. And when language and meaning become subjective, society breaks down. The rule of law becomes a grey area. Commands become suggestions. And how do you keep anyone, including yourself, accountable for actions based on ambiguous language? "

― Alex Latimer , The Space Race

4 " Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest. "

― Robert Wright , The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

5 " People who tell untruths are easily deceived because they have placed their energy in that negative vibration location and are now a match for that behavior. "

― Molly Friedenfeld , The Book of Simple Human Truths