Lie Quotes
We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value - - A test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.T. S. Eliot
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
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.Abraham Lincoln
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.Albert Camus
No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, 1840
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.Franklin P. Adams
Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.Julius Rosenwald
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.George Bernard Shaw
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.Norman Vincent Peale
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.Horace Mann
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.The Talmud
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.Sir Francis Bacon
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.Clive
I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.Richard Pryo
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.John A. Locke
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.Louis D. Brandeis
Nothing is easier than self - Deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac
There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that.Albert Einstein
Art is a lie that tells the truth.Pablo Picasso
The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.George J. Seidel
No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - But sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.Richard Simmons
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
I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.Carl Jung
The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.Galileo Galilei
I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.M. C. Esche
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.Andre Norton
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.William Occam
Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.Friedrich Nietzsche
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 wil happen... There will be something solid for us to stand on.. ..... or we will be taught to fly.Patrick Overton
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - - Except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets for it is in London that our scene lies, rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.Edward Bulwer - Lytton, Paul Clifford
The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith.Walter Dale Langtry
Man is a make - Believe animal - He is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.William Hazlitt
The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.Maurice Chapelain
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.Jean de La Fontaine
