Lie Quotes

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

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

Frank Tyge

If someone tells you who they are, believe them.

Maya Angelou

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

Charles Dudley Warne

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

George Bernard Shaw

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

Tom Robbins

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Pope John Paul II

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

Socrates

What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Aristotle

A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth.

Dag Hammarskjold, newspaper quote of the day

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

William James

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

Conte Camillo Benso di Cavou

No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?

Carl L. Becke

He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.

Thomas Fulle

I do not believe the expenditure of $2. 50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

Evelyn Waugh

The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women - Of all classes - Detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion - Mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

George Eliot

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

John Quincy Adams

We believe he wanted to win in the worst way.

Don Eslinger, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Camille Paglia

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

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

George Frost Kennan

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Henry Ford

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - It saves so much trouble.

Rudyard Kipling

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Buddha

Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.

Unknown

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

Ellen G. White

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

Albert Einstein

Virginity is in the lies of the beholder.

The Clown Prince of Darkness

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Aldous Huxley

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.

Tom Clancy

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

Denis Diderot

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Mark Twain

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

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Mohandas Ghandi