Lie Quotes

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Fred Rogers

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.

Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Alexander Pope

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Diane Ackerman

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Bernard Berenson

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

To teach well is to believe in what and whom you teach.

Donna Bulge

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819

To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.

Unknown

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, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".

He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2

You must believe in God in spite of what the clergy say.

Benjamin Jowett

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Susan Sontag

Invincibility lies in the defense the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends when his strength is inadequate he attacks when it is abundant.

Sun - Tzu

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

I. F. Stone

If the belief in Christianity did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!

Friedrich Nietzsche, "Human, All Too Human" page 87, #120.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Joseph Addison

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

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H. 96, ll. 11 - 12.

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

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Albert Einstein

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Edith Sitwell

To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth.

Charles - Damian Boulogne

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

Our Constitution protects aliens, drunks, and U. S. senators.

Will Rogers

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Robertson Davies

Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - And on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - And we will neglect it at our peril.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 p1063

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.

Deepak Chopra

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

Most of our students are here to get the credentials they believe are central to admission to the Dream. Everyone does the rhetoric bit - Fascist pig this and that - But push them and they ask you to write recommendations for jobs with banks and insurance companies.

John Gargin

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts".

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Charles De Gaulle

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Ursula K. LeGuin

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

Jawahar Lal Neheru

It? s a wonder I haven? t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944