Lie Quotes

Men generally believe what they wish.

Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.

Joyce Strange

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

William Shakespeare, "King Henry IV Part II", Act 2 scene 1

Believing where we cannot prove.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

Irving Layton

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

Charles Dickens

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

Emerson

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

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

Anwar el - Sadat

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

Steve Martin

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.

Quintilian

Believe in life Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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".

One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. On Soviet and Allied missiles in Europe.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.

William James

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Leo Rosten

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

Pliny the Elde

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Henry Louis Mencken

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

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Michael Korda

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Carrie P. Snow

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

Sir Henry Wotton

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Harry S. Truman

The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.

Author Unknown

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.

James Harvey Robinson

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign

To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.

King Stanislas I of Poland

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.

Tom Clancy

Actions lie louder than words.

Carolyn Wells

Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self - Made sepulcher of a living man.

Francis Quarles

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

Sydney Harris

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.

Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003