Lie Quotes

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Roge

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.

Native American

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Thomas H. Huxley

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.

Unknown

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

George Santayana

You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that - And shudder.

Bible, James 2: 19 (New International Version)

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

H. L. Mencken

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

Homer, The Odyssey

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

Liberace

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.

Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Scepticism".

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the godsThey kill us for their sport.

William Shakespeare

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine

Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Willa Cathe

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

Stephen Jay Gould

He who is always his own counselor will often have a fool for his client.

Hunte

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that - Thank Heaven - Nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

J. B. Priestley

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

Lady Bird Johnson

Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

Lillian Hellman

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!

Alfred A. Montapert

Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.

Signs

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Michael Korda

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

Ron Nesen

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Susan Sontag

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Aldous Huxley

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

George Gordon Byron