Lie Quotes

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

James Feibleman

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Laurence J. Pete

I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.

James A. Autry

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Mark Twain

If the belief in Christianity did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!

Friedrich Nietzsche, "Human, All Too Human" page 87, #120.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

Sir Winston Churchill

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

Albert Einstein

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

Any fool can tell the truth; it takes talent to lie well.

Robert Ludlum, "The Tristan Betrayal".

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

Who lies for you will lie against you.

Bosnian Prove

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

James Thurbe

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

Karl Kraus

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

E. V. Lucas

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Sir William Arthu

There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

William James

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.

Coleman Cox

There is no shame in not knowing the shame lies in not finding out.

Assyrian Prove

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Eugene Paul Wigne

There are three kinds of lies lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

Dr. Robert Schulle

Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.

French Prove

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

Epictetus

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Pablo Picasso

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

Martin Luthe

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Montesquieu

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

Jacques Bossuet

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

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

William Shakespeare

Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale

I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.

Richard Pryo

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.

Tom Clancy

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.

Raisa M. Gorbachev

According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.

Charles Richte