Lie Quotes

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past...

Mikhail Gorbachev, (1988)

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.

Abraham Lincoln

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

A. Huxley, Island

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Peter Ustinov

You have to believe that the universe will provide.

Steve Crosby

You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that - And shudder.

Bible, James 2: 19 (New International Version)

Eric Draven Little things use to mean so much to Shelley - I thought they were kind of trivial. Believe me, nothing is trivial.

Crow, The

Carlyle said, A lie cannot live; it shows he did not know how to tell them.

Mark Twain

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.

W. E. B. Du Bois, last message to the world, 1957

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin H. Fische

To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, ... to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.

Ernest Hemingway

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.

Elbert Hubbard

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Peggy Noonan

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Stephen Roberts

If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.

Chinese Prove

He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2

We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us.

La Rochefoucauld

There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that.

Albert Einstein

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.

Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U. S. Senators.

Will Rogers

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Jean de La Fontaine

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

Margot Asquith

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

John Ruskin

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

Albert Camus

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

Lyman Beeche

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

Denis Johnston

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Bhagavad Gita

All of his saves have come in relief appearances.

Ralph Kine

The true Church is not an organization, nor does one join it through the noisy mechanics of denominational machinery. Rather it is a living organism, a body, and believers are joined to it by the quiet working of the Holy Spirit.

Cornelius Stam

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea - Change Into something rich and strange.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

Henry Christopher Bailey

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey