Lie Quotes

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

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 fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.

George Bernard Shaw

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Sir Francis Bacon

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.

Bryce Courtenay

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

Ludwig Erhard

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch. 1

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.

Bartholomew

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U. S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

Stephen Ambrose, D - Day, page 577

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

Alice Walker, Living by the Word, 1988

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Truman Capote

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

Pythagoras

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Eugene Paul Wigne

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - So they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Frank Lloyd Wright, New York Times, October 4, 1953

I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn....

Ian Shoales

I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Stephen Butler Leacock

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Richard Wagne

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Mark Twain

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

Edgar Watson Howe

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Johann von Goethe

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

James Feibleman

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest - - But the myth - - Persistant, persuasive and unrealistic.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Alexander Pope

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Hilaire Belloc

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

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nelson Mandela

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