Lie Quotes

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.

Hietzsche

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice.

Joseph Dunninger, Mentalist

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

John Ciardi

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

Don Frase

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

Josh Billings

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

William Shakespeare

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Hermann Hesse

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Ludwig Erhard

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

William James

I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.

Benjamin Franklin

One essential to success is that your desire be an all - Obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co - Ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

Claude M. Bristol

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Prince Otto

You have to believe that the universe will provide.

Steve Crosby

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - To live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283

Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold - Bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

James R. Lowell

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well - Meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re - Armament

Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.

William Shakespeare

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.

David P. Mikkelson, Snopes. com, 04 - 10 - 04

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.

Raisa M. Gorbachev

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

Assyrian Prove

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

Don Delillo

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

John Gunthe

After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.

Norman Thomas

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood", 1803

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

Von Weizsacke

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

George John Whyte - Melville

Hello, he lied.

Don Carpenter quoting a Hollywood agent

Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

William Ralph Inge

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

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Alexander Hamilton

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Henry David Thoreau