Lie Quotes

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell, 1946

Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

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

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

J. Krishnamarti

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.

Bertrand Russell

There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

J. W. Alexande

Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

George Bernard Shaw

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

Homer, The Odyssey

It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

Virginia

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, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5

Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.

Thomas a Kempis

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Sophia Loren

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

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Louis Pasteu

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - And, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I believe the destiny of your generation - And your nation - Is a rendezvous with excellence.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

Charles Robert Darwin

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

Woody Allen

America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esa

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.

Henry James

With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

R. D. Laing

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

Adam Smith

I believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail.

William Faulkne

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Errol Flynn

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. said of Mahatma Gandhi.

Albert Einstein

Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.

Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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 too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Homer, The Iliad

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Dale Carnegie

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

J Danforth Quayle