Lie Quotes
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
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - - Except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets for it is in London that our scene lies, rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.Edward Bulwer - Lytton, Paul Clifford
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
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.Plato
One essential to success is that your desire be an all - Obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co - Ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.Claude M. Bristol
For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.Henry Louis Mencken
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.Bellamy Brooks
Each of us, as members of the Body of Christ, has been given at least one spiritual gift. Besides this, there are the natural abilities with which God has endowed us. He intends these to primarily be used for the edification of the Body of believers. There is no such thing as a private gift Rom. 126 - 8.Bruce Kempe
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.John A. Locke
A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.Unknown
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.George Santayana
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)
A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.Don Frase
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.George Bernard Shaw
It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.Henry Ford
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.Michael Faraday
Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?Richard D. Rosen
Men as well as animals do whatever makes them happy, differences lie in what makes them happy.B. J. Gupta
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.Albert Einstein
Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.Marsha Evans
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty.John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.Plato
Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.Jerry Coleman
The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife.Elbert Hubbard
I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.Frank Deford
The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.Havelock Ellis
Mankind is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX
Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.John Cogley Commonweal
The true skeptic will never believe you no matter how much proof you offer him. The true believer does not need it.Peter James, Ghosts of the Queen Mary
All of his saves have come in relief appearances.Ralph Kine
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel
If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this enjoy it but never quite believe it.Robert Montgomery
A half - Truth is a whole lie.Yiddish Prove
Every man has his follies - - And often they are the most interesting thing he had got.Josh Billings
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.Robert Lynd
