Lie Quotes

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Mahatma Gandhi

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

I believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point, I believe in our need for them.

Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing, Page 4, final paragraph

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Lyman Beeche

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

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass.

American Indian Prove

A man said to the Universe: Sir, I exist! However, replied the Universe, the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.

Stephen Crane

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Tony Montana I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Scarface

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...

G. K. Chesterton

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

Sydney Harris

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies.

John Dryden

Most of our future lies ahead.

Denny Crum, Louisville basketball coach

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Pablo Picasso

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Aeschylus

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

R. D. Laing

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

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

Rudyard Kipling

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Denis Diderot

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Henry David Thoreau

What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Henry David Thoreau

What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.

Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.

Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 2 - 10 - 05

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Roland, "The Last Gunslinger".

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Sophia Loren

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts".

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Critisize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.

William A. Ward

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Everett D. Martin

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Richard Dawkins

One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. On Soviet and Allied missiles in Europe.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

There is no shame in not knowing the shame lies in not finding out.

Assyrian Prove

To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Lillian Smith

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