Lie Quotes

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

D. Elton Trueblood

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Joseph Addison

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. Mencken

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.

Henry James

Every man has his follies - - And often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Josh Billings

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

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Maria Montessori

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

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Germaine Greer, O Magazine, September 2002

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

Adam Clayton Jr. Powell

If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.

William Occam

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Mark Twain

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.

Agnes de Mille

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

Susan Jeffers

We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.

Native American

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

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteu

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Pietro Aretino

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

Adolf Hitle

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

The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.

Author Unknown

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

Jacques Bossuet

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Richard Adams

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esa

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 5 scene 7

The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.

Samuel Butle

Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

Lillian Hellman

I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

John Keats

What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.

Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

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

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Anatole France

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the godsThey kill us for their sport.

William Shakespeare