Lie Quotes

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.

Theodore Roosevelt

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson, on ESP

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

Robert Lynd

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw

Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003

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

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Andr Dubus

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

Phil Donahue

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Stanislaw J. Lec

There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

J. W. Alexande

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - - That doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit - - Enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

Eric Anderson

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Robertson Davies

Carlyle said, A lie cannot live; it shows he did not know how to tell them.

Mark Twain

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

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

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

John Quincy Adams

I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Woody Allen

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

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

Charles Dickens

Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. While we talk, hostile time flies away.

Horace

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 is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

Jean - Paul Sartre

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.

Hietzsche

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Colin Powell

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

Malcolm Boyd

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.

Adolf Hitle

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