Lie Quotes

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Horace Mann

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

Pliny the Elde

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

George Eliot

A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done - - Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson

For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.

Herbert Schille

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

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth.

Alfred Adle

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.

Dan Quayle, 5/22/89

Authenticity matters little, though our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.

Barbara Mikkelson

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty.

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.

William James

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt, in National Enquire

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

Woody Allen

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preache

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

Johann von Goethe

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U. S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

Stephen Ambrose, D - Day, page 577

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator.

Johann von Goethe

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Stephen Roberts

An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.

Franklin P. Jones

We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed.

Rosalind Sussman Yalow

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

Mark Twain

Actions lie louder than words.

Carolyn Wells

Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever - wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.

Fawn M. Brodie

The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people.

German prove

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

G. K. Chesterton

The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.

Winston Spencer Churchill

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Louis D. Brandeis