Lie Quotes

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Alexander Hamilton

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

John Maynard Keynes

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - - There, if one must speak out, the real man.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it - As long as you really believe 100 percent.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Marcel Proust

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

Anatole France

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

Edward Telle

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.

Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947

Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever - wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.

Fawn M. Brodie

Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Dryden

Invincibility lies in the defense the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends when his strength is inadequate he attacks when it is abundant.

Sun - Tzu

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

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

William James

The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.

Samual Rutherford

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Plato

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

Charles Robert Darwin

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Garrison Keillo

The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.

Thomas Jefferson

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Francis Bacon

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

Lord Salisbury

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.

Theodore Roosevelt

All writers - All people - Have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half - Forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.

Sir V Pritchett

Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

Dan Quayle, 8/11/89

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

William Shakespeare

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

Rose Macauley

There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

William James

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

Mark Twain

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)

There is danger in both belief and unbelief.

Phaedrus

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Don Frase

Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.

C. A. Bartol