Lie Quotes

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600, 000. No, I replied, I just spent 600, 000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

Walter Savage Lando

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

G. C. Lichtenberg

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Peter Ustinov

You are not made happy by the true things you believe from your faith, but by the goodness which comes from your faith.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Arcana Coelestia" #4984

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Louis Pasteu

I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand.

Confucius

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - A trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.

Ronald Reagan

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Charles De Gaulle

One essential to success is that your desire be an all - Obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co - Ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

Claude M. Bristol

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

Max Born

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

What should move us to action is human dignity the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Dominique de Menil

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make - Believe!

Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

John Gunthe

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Aristotle

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

Men generally believe what they wish.

Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

Charles Dickens

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest - - But the myth - - Persistant, persuasive and unrealistic.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.

Frank Tyge

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.

Frank Outlaw

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that - Thank Heaven - Nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

J. B. Priestley

There are laws for everything except the harm families do.

Sue Grafton, "D" is for Deadbeat

Self - Loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self - Neglecting.

William Shakespeare

To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.

Edward R. Murrow

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Benjamin Disraeli

A lie told often enough becomes truth.

Lenin

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