“Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, "That when they speak truth they are not believed."”

“Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.”

“The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.”

“You mustn't alway believe what I say", he once told me. "Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.”

“I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.”

“Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
But when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable.”

“Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.”

“2084. He that does not speak Truth to me, does not believe me when I speak Truth.”

“It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.”

“It is said (I do not know with what truth) that a certain Hindu thinker believed the earth to rest upon an elephant. When asked what the elephant rested upon, he replied that it rested upon a tortoise. When asked what the tortoise rested upon, he said, "I am tired of this. Suppose we change the subject."”