We’ve all been there. You’re having a conversation with someone and you just know they aren’t being totally honest. You can tell when someone is lying to your face but you don’t call them out on it. It’s frustrating! Instead of confronting them, sometimes it helps to remember a motivational quote to keep your cool. Here are over 150 quotes all about knowing the truth when someone else is being shady.
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When Someone Is Lying and You Know the Truth Quotes
- “A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.” – Charles Edward Montague
- “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” – Albert Einstein
- “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” – William Blake
- “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so it entombs you as well.” – Peter McWilliams
- “I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.” – Richard Feynman
- “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde
- “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” – Winston Churchill
- “Who lies for you will lie against you.” – Bono
- “No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Lies, lies, those tasty morsels that slide so smoothly down our throats.” – Isobelle Carmody
- “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
- “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Mark Twain
- “There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
- “Truth is powerful and it prevails.” – Sojourner Truth
- “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” – Winston Churchill
- “Who lies for you will lie against you.” – Bosnian proverb
- “Tell the truth or someone will tell it for you.” – Stephanie Klein
- “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Lying is done with words, and also with silence.” – Adrienne Rich
- “Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.” – Michael Jackson
- “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” – Winston Churchill
- “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Charles Spurgeon
- “Who lies for you will lie against you.” – Bosnian Proverb
- “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” – Buddha
- “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” – Joe Klaas
- “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.” – Sir Francis Bacon
- “You can bend it and twist it… You can misuse and abuse it… But even God cannot change the Truth.” – Michael Levy
- “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde
- “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” – Flannery O’Connor
- “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” – Albert Einstein
- “Truth is powerful and it prevails.” – Sojourner Truth
- “A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” – William Blake
- “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” – Joe Klaas
- “Truth never damages a cause that is just.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “When you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
- “Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.” – Sir Francis Bacon
- “Tell the truth or someone will tell it for you.” – Stephanie Klein
- “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “No legacy is as rich as honesty.” – William Shakespeare
- “Three things cannot hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.” – Buddha
- “A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.” – Alfred Adler
- “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.” – Lao Tzu
- “The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will be out. Never forget that.” – Rush Limbaugh
When You Already Know the Truth but You Want to See How Good They Are at Lying Quotes
- “I am not interested in the truth if it’s polite.” – Ada Calhoun
- “Let him who truths would teach to truth himself be true.” – J. G. Whittier
- “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The hardest lies to catch are the ones closest to the truth.” – Nicole Lyons
- “It takes two to lie: One to lie and the other to listen.” – Homer Simpson
- “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” – Walter Scott
- “There’s a way to do it better – find it.” – Thomas Edison
- “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.” – Orson Welles
- “A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.” – Cuban proverb
- “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde
- “If you want the truth to go round the world, you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly; it is light as a feather and a breath will carry it.” – Rev Charles H. Spurgeon
- “A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.” – Charles Edward Montague
- “A half truth is a whole lie.” – Yiddish proverb
- “A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.” – Alfred Adler
- “Lies come in all shapes and sizes, but the truth is not afraid to stand alone.” – Jodi Livon
- “Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.” ― Abraham Lincoln
- “Tell a lie once and all your truths become questionable.” – Unknown
- “If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won’t.” – Mark Twain
- “Never lie to someone who trusts you and never trust someone who lies to you.” – Unknown
- “We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.” – Marcel Proust
- “Wounds from a sincere friend are better than many kisses from an enemy.” – Proverbs 27:6
- “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “To perceive is to suffer.” – Aristotle
- “A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.” – Unknown
- “No legacy is as rich as honesty.” – William Shakespeare
- “If you have to lie about it today, how real do you think it is?” – Amy Poehler
- “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” – Gloria Steinem
- “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Mark Twain
- “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.” – Unknown
- “If you have to lie about it today, how real do you think it is?” – Amy Poehler
- “Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.” – Robert Brault
- “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “To lie is to sleep; to tell the truth is to wake up.” – Serbian proverb
- “Honesty is spiritual wisdom.” – Thiruvalluvar
- “Tell the truth or someone will tell it for you.” – Stephanie Klein
- “Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.” ― Michael Jackson
- “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” – Søren Kierkegaard
- “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” – W. Clement Stone
- “I am not interested in the truth if it’s polite.” – Ada Calhoun
- “Let him who truths would teach to truth himself be true.” – J.G. Whittier
When Someone Is Lying and You Know the Truth Quotes Short
- “Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.” – Miguel de Cervantes
- “Lies have short legs.” – German proverb
- “There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting.” – Buddha
- “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Mark Twain
- “Who lies for you will lie against you.” – Bosnian proverb
- “Truth never damages a cause that is just.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.” – Michael Jackson
- “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” – Joe Klaas
- “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
- “I’m not upset that you lied, I’m upset that I can’t trust you now.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The truth will set you free, but first it will enrage you.” – Gloria Steinem
- “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.” – Edgar J. Mohn
- “Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted with truth in important affairs.” – Albert Einstein
- “The truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged.” – Unknown
- “Three things cannot hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.” – Buddha
- “A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” – William Blake
- “No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Lies have short legs.” – German proverb
- “Lies may flourish but truth will prevail.” – Tamil proverb
- “Truth fears no questions.” – Unknown
- “A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.” – Chinese proverb
- “The truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.” – Ice Cube
- “Lies have short wings.” – German proverb
- “A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Lies need masks. Truth needs only to be what it is.” – Rondeaux
- “Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “When you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
- “No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- “Three things cannot be hidden: coughing, poverty, and love.” – Chinese Proverb
- “Truth springs from argument amongst friends.” – David Hume
- “There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting.” – Buddha
- “Three things cannot long stay hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” – Buddha
- “A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.” – Alfred Adle