Lie Quotes

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.

Thomas Jefferson

Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason.

James Ramsey

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

Frank Tyge

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

Ronald Reagan

He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX

Man is a make - Believe animal - He is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

William Hazlitt

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewrite.

Woody Allen

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Stephen A. Brennan

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

John Gunthe

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Harry S. Truman

Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.

Oliver Herford

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Hilaire Belloc

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

Ovid

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Bhagavad Gita

God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

George Santayana

On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.

Unknown

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.

Abraham Lincoln

Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

Fulton J. Sheen

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.

King Stanislas I of Poland

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

The whole of the Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

Albert Gallatin

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Thomas H. Huxley

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, December 2003

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Bertrand Russell

Far away there in the sunshine are my brightest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcot

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Kahlil Gibran

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy