Lie Quotes

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Eugene Paul Wigne

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

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have And take the step into the darkness of the unknown We must believe that one of two things wil happen... There will be something solid for us to stand on.. ..... or we will be taught to fly.

Patrick Overton

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".

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Laertius Diogenes

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

George William Curtis

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

Ronald Reagan

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

Horace Mann

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

George John Whyte - Melville

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Margaret Atwood

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

William Shakespeare

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

Epictetus

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

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

Lord Salisbury

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

William James

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.

Adolf Hitle

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

W. E. B. Du Bois, last message to the world, 1957

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - To live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283

Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell, 1946

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.

Unknown

When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.

H. Allen Smith

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

Susan Jeffers

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour at Omaha it held up the U. S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

Stephen Ambrose

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

Don Delillo

The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

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

Elihu Burritt

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.

Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947

Be a sinner and sin mightily, but more mightily believe and rejoice in Christ.

Martin Luthe

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

W. Somerset Maugham

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

James Agee

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.

Beatrix Potte

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.

Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6