Lie Quotes

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

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

Plato

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

Stanislaus Lescynski

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

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

William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 5 scene 7

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

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.

Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Scepticism".

J. P Morgan, when asked what the stock market will do, replied,

It will fluctuate.

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Louis D. Brandeis

When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.

H. Allen Smith

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

Claud Cockburn

The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

George Walker Bush

Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple - Minded...

Plato, _Phaedrus_

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Henry Kissinge

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

Author Unknown

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

C. A. Bartol

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

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

Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Foka Gomez

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.

Joseph Stalin

The Godless would deny and destroy human rights.... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned.

U. S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

Norman R. Augustine

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

Robert J. McKain

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

Fulton J. Sheen

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits.

Carl Sagan

A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. Mencken

We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

Alfred Jarry

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition

Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.

John Schumake

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.

Deepak Chopra