Lie Quotes

I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Benjamin Franklin

Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.

Matrix, The

A half - Truth is a whole lie.

Yiddish Prove

As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.

Robertson Davies

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

George Santayana

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Galileo Galilei

Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who believes that his own truth is complete and final must become a dogmatist... The more sincere his faith, the more he is bound to persecute, to save others from falling into error.

Joyce

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well - Meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re - Armament

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.

Bartholomew

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

Louis Celine

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Mark Twain

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.

Bertrand Russell

Blind belief is dangerous.

Kenyan Prove

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

William Henry Harrison, Speech, October 1, 1840

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

Dick Gregory

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Albert Einstein

America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.

President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio

I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day.

William Gordon

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface.

Aldous Huxley

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

I believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point, I believe in our need for them.

Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing, Page 4, final paragraph

Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.

S. J. Perelman

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nelson Mandela

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

J. William Fulbright, Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28, 1966

A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. Mencken

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

C. C. Colton

Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

H. L. Mencken

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

Francis Bacon

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

Claude Bernard (1813 - 78)

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

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

Thomas H. Huxley

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

Author Unknown

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

J Danforth Quayle

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin