Lie Quotes

A man said to the Universe: Sir, I exist! However, replied the Universe, the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.

Stephen Crane

There are laws for everything except the harm families do.

Sue Grafton, "D" is for Deadbeat

Oh, replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, he told me to come and see you.

Author Unknown

I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface.

Aldous Huxley

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

William Blake

Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.

I. F. Stone 1907 - 1989

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Henry David Thoreau

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman - Like habits, supplies their demands.

Oscar Wilde

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

It is twice as hard to crush a half - Truth as a whole lie.

Unknown

What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Mark Twain

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

Thomas H. Huxley

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.

William Occam

Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?

Richard D. Rosen

Men generally believe what they wish.

Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other.

Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

George Frost Kennan

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

Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.

Spider - Man

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

Arthur Wing Pinero

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

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Saint Thomas Aquinas, Two Precepts of Charity

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

Hietzsche

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.

Bertrand Russell

Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man ever quite believes in any other man.

Henry Louis Mencken

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

Warren Bennis

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Henry Louis Mencken

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

Fran Lebowitz

Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.

F. F. Bosworth