Lie Quotes

Richard kehl - a little boy came home and told his mother he had...
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Germaine Greer, O Magazine, September 2002
If someone tells you who they are, believe them.
Maya Angelou
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
Paul Valery
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Bertrand Russell
Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds - - And then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.
Michael Crichton, Prey
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
Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Sophocles, Ajax
I believe that if i should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.
Benito Perez Galdos
Alfred adle - the truth is often a terrible weapon of...
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - That is genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Marie Curie
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.
Umberto Eco
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.
Richard Simmons
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Scepticism".
Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
Authenticity matters little, though - - Our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.
David P. Mikkelson, snopes. com, February 25, 2000
There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.
William James
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
Stanislaus Lescynski
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the godsThey kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Aldous Huxley
People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Therapy
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
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Stephen A. Brennan
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
George William Curtis
Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.
Mark Twain
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
Hippocrates
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
A closed mouth catches no flies.
Miguel de Cervantes
Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.
W. L. George
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
Charles Richte
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Lisa Grossman
Who lies for you will lie against you.
Bosnian Prove
The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.
George Jellinek
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