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Deception, whether big or small, is a common thread in the tapestry of human interaction. We’ve all been there—sensing the falsehoods, seeing through the mask, and understanding that someone is lying right in our faces.

In such moments, it’s often challenging to express our feelings, but that’s where these 101+ quotes come to your rescue. From humorous to profound, these quotes will help you navigate the complex emotions that arise when you know the truth and someone is lying to your face.

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When Someone is Lying and You Know the Truth Quotes

“Lies require commitment. Telling the truth requires courage.” – Veronica Roth

“A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.” – Rick Warren

“Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.” – Dhar Mann

“A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.” – Aesop

“The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.” – Abu Bakr

“A half-truth is a whole lie.” – Yiddish Proverb

“I’m not upset that you lied to me; I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Lies are a temporary solution to a permanent problem.” – Anonymous

“Truth is like surgery. It hurts, but it cures.” – Liev Schreiber

“Don’t trust everything you see. Even salt looks like sugar.” – Anonymous

“When in doubt, tell the truth.” – Mark Twain

“Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.” – Maggie Kuhn

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.” – William Shakespeare

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” – C.S. Lewis

Realization of Truth

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.” – Elvis Presley

“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 truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde

“People are going to lie to you, but as long as you trust yourself, you can handle anything they throw at you.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The truth will set you free, but first, it will piss you off.” – Gloria Steinem

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” – Winston Churchill

“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.” – Miguel de Cervantes

“The moment I realized someone’s lying to me, I’m done with them. I don’t have time for that.” – Jennifer Lawrence

“Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.” – Mother Teresa

“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” – Saint Augustine

“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

“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.” – Dresden James

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” – Winston Churchill

“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance of things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” – Flannery O’Connor

“The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

“You can be a thousand different. It’s your mind that creates your world.” – Shirley Bassey

“The truth is not for all, but only for those who seek it.” – Ayn Rand

“There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.” – Douglas MacArthur

“The truth is more important than the facts.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

“The truth will always find its way to the surface, no matter how deep it’s buried by lies.” – Unknown

“The moment you realize that someone has been lying to you, the truth becomes your ally, and deception your enemy.” – Unknown

“Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.” – Michael Jackson

“Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth-telling, truth-speaking, truth-living, and truth-loving.” – James E. Faust

“Lying is done with words and also with silence.” – Adrienne Rich

The Value of Honesty

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The foundation of a strong and lasting relationship is honesty and trust.” – Zig Ziglar

“Honesty is the best policy. If I lose my honor, I lose myself.” – William Shakespeare

“The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.” – Scott Hamilton

“Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.” – Warren Buffett

“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” – Socrates

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

“When you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

“It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.” – Rick Riordan

“The most important thing in life is to be yourself. Unless you can be honest, then always be honest.” – Dave Chappelle

“The truth doesn’t cost anything, but a lie could cost you everything.” – Unknown

“Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.” – James Altucher

“The value of a moment of honesty is beyond price.” – Saint Augustine

Deception and betrayal

“It’s not the lie that bothers me. It’s the insult to my intelligence that I find offensive.”

“When someone lies to you, it’s because they don’t respect you enough to be honest, and they think you’re too stupid to know the difference.”

“Betrayal can only happen if you love.” – John Le Carré

“Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by no means a game for a king.” – Sophocles

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” – William Blake

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasow

“Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose and the hardest thing in the world to get back.” – R. Williams

“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.” – Malcolm X

“The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies. It always comes from the people you trust the most.” – Unknown

“There are really only a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love are one of those good stories to tell.” – Sean Lennon

“Sometimes, the person you’d take a bullet for ends up being the one behind the gun.” – Tupac Shakur

“The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint… but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.” – C.S. Lewis

“Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.” – Barbara Kingsolver

“Deceive a liar if you can, and tell the truth if you must.” – Jewish Proverb

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“An honest enemy is better than a false friend. When in doubt, pay more attention to what people do and less to what they say. Actions not only speak louder than words; they are more difficult to fake.” – Zero Dean

“The only people who are mad at you for speaking the truth are those who are living a lie. Keep speaking the truth.” – Unknown

Facing the truth

“Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” – Flannery O’Connor

“You can’t hide from the truth because the truth is all there is.” – Iain S. Thomas

“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.” – Nathaniel Branden

“Confront the dark parts of yourself and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.” – August Wilson

“The truth will set you free, but first, it will piss you off.” – Gloria Steinem

“We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yes or no—and rise!” – Maya Angelou

“Facing it, always facing it—that’s the way to get through. Face it.” – Joseph Conrad

“Facing the truth really will set you free.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, as simple as your own existence.” – Swami Sivananda

“The truth is the most important thing, but so is having class and making an effort to tell it in a sensitive way.” – Anne Lamott

“There is no changing things until we accept them as they are.” – C.G. Jung

“The biggest step in changing our lives is believing we deserve something better.” – Unknown

“You can’t change the truth, but the truth can change you.” – Unknown

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor are beautiful words the truth.” – Lao Tzu

“You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” – Dan Millman

Strength in truth

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.”

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

“Truth is powerful, and it prevails.” – Sojourner Truth

“The strong man is the one who is able to intercept the communication between the senses and the mind.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“The truth is the only thing that nobody will believe.” – George Bernard Shaw

“The greatest strength is in gentleness.” – Leo Tolstoy

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker

“Stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone.” – Unknown

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even all the armies in the world cannot defeat it.” – Paramahansa Yogananda

“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” – Confucius

“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.” – Czesław Miłosz

“The truth is on the side of the oppressed.” – Malcolm X

“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice.” – William James

“The truth is the best vindication against slander.” – Unknown

“The strength of truth lies in its ability to pierce through falsehood and shine brightly, regardless of attempts to obscure it.” – Unknown

“The truth will always be stronger than any lie or deceit.” – Unknown

“Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.” – Ice Cube

“The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.” – E.V. Lucas

“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” – William Shakespeare

“There is no strength in untruth. There is no power in deception. The power rests in truth and transparency.” – Kamand Kojouri

“The truth will always be stronger than any lie or deception.” – Unknown

“A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.” – Baltasar Gracián

“Honesty is a source of strength; it gives you the power to conquer and transform.” – Shae Ross

In a world where deception can cloud our relationships and interactions, these quotes serve as a reminder of the importance of truth, trust, and integrity.

Whether you’re seeking solace after discovering a lie or looking for the right words to confront a liar, these quotes offer wisdom, humor, and guidance.

Remember, the truth may be uncomfortable at times, but it’s a beacon of light in a world filled with shadows of deceit.

So, stay true to your principles, and let these quotes guide you through the complexities of human interaction.

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