Lie Quotes

We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.

Dan Quayle, 5/22/89

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.

Sir Walter Besant

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Okakura Kakuzo

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

D. Elton Trueblood

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Henry Louis Mencken

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

Ronald Reagan

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.

Maurice Chapelain

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 03 - 11 - 04

A lie travels farther than the truth.

Irish Prove

You have to believe that the universe will provide.

Steve Crosby

The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy

I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your right to do so.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

E. e. cummings

We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.

Romare Beardon

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

Irving Layton

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Miguel de Cervantes

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man.

Steven Runciman

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

H. L. Mencken

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company

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

Will Rogers

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank

Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

E. V. Lucas

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.

Martin Cruz Smith on being asked how he liked the movie version of his novel Gorky Park.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is danger in both belief and unbelief.

Phaedrus

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillo

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Besseme