Lie Quotes

James agee - truth lies within a little and certain compass,...
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
John A. Locke
Robert ludlum,
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
George Walker Bush
He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.
Spanish Prove
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love".
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Havelock Ellis
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
John Buchan
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.
Deepak Chopra
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
Alfred E. Wiggam
Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Foka Gomez
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve.
Napolean Hill
It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well.
Maureen Dowd, New York Times, January 10, 2005
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
Ludwig Mises
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare Pavese
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Bertrand Russell
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.
Martin Luthe
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.
Albert Einstein
I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.
Joseph Stalin
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Harry S Truman
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.
John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
Michael Faraday
The nature of men and women - Their essential nature - Is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
W. Somerset Maugham
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5
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
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.
Erich Fromm
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butle
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.
Robert Ingersoll, ? What Must We Do To Be Saved?? (1880)
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
Ronald Knox
I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
Mary Cholmondeley
Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.
F. F. Bosworth
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits.
Carl Sagan
I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.
Josh Billings