Lie Quotes

Most of our students are here to get the credentials they believe are central to admission to the Dream. Everyone does the rhetoric bit - Fascist pig this and that - But push them and they ask you to write recommendations for jobs with banks and insurance companies.

John Gargin

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

James Agee

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

Ovid

Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.

Marsha Evans

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - He could not even lie.

Mark Twain

The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.

Author Unknown

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

Jacob Neusne

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

William Arthur Ward

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches

Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.

Oliver Herford

I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.

Frank Deford

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

Epicurus

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

William Shakespeare

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Vince Lombardi

A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.

Author Unknown

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

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Eric Hoffe

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Louis D. Brandeis

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Robert Anton Wilson

There is danger in both belief and unbelief.

Phaedrus

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If you tell a lie - - Tell a big one.

Joespeh Goebbels

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

C. C. Colton

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Denis Diderot

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Montesquieu

It is forbidden to decry other sects the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

Asoka

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.

D. A. Battista

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

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joesph Conrad, "Carnival of Wit".

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

Benjamin Disraeli

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warne

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Honore de Balzac

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon