Lie Quotes

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Richard Feynman

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - The wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - For precisely the same reason.

Douglas Noel Adams

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.

Beatrix Potte

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

Steve Martin

Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

Albert Camus

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

Claude Bernard (1813 - 78)

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Neil Postman

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Cesare Pavese

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale

I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?

Chris Martin, Rolling Stone Magazine

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

Naturally, we cannot say much about the spiritual body, because we cannot imagine what it would be like to have a spiritual body different from that which we now inhabit but it seems to me reasonable to believe that we are weaving our spiritual bodies as we go along.

William R. Matthews

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.

A. Huxley, Island

Nothing got him angrier than when people implied he was paranoid. It made him feel persecuted.

Robert Sheckley

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - Not giving and taking.

Joyce Grenfell

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964

Oh, that way madness lies let me shun that.

William Shakespeare

Believing where we cannot prove.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Ronnie Lott

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Dr. Thomas Dooley

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.

Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947

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

Lyman Beeche

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

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

Alfred E. Wiggam

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Alan J. Perlis

Most of our students are here to get the credentials they believe are central to admission to the Dream. Everyone does the rhetoric bit - Fascist pig this and that - But push them and they ask you to write recommendations for jobs with banks and insurance companies.

John Gargin

I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

John Keats