Lie Quotes

The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.

John P. Grie

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butle

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Carrie P. Snow

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Louis D. Brandeis

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value - - A test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

T. S. Eliot

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

John Maynard Keynes

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me.

Friedrich Nietzsce, Beyond Good and Evil

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass.

American Indian Prove

Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Alexander Pope

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

Maria Montessori

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

J. William Fulbright, Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28, 1966

Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the furture, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns.

Joseph Weizenbaum

No man ever quite believes in any other man.

Henry Louis Mencken

Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - But sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

Harold Taylo

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Alexander Hamilton

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Whitney Moore, Jr.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.

Jerry Coleman

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

Stanislaus Lescynski

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

Homer, The Odyssey

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Richard Wagne

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Mark Twain

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewrite.

Woody Allen

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

H. L. Mencken

We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

Alfred Jarry

He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

Benjamin Franklin

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

Lou Reed

Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.

William James

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. on atomic energy.

Albert Einstein