Lie Quotes

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.
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
Author Unknown
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done - - Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Buddha - believe nothing merely because you have been told...
C. s. lewis - i believe in god like i believe in the sun, not...
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.
S. J. Perelman
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
Mohandas Ghandi
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
Michel de Montaigne
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
Arthur Calwell
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
Laurence J. Peter, paraphrasing Sir Walter Scott
Terence - homo sum humani nil a me alienum puto. i am a man...
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - - And hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
It is forbidden to decry other sects the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
Asoka
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
Dinah Mulock Craik
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
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Francis Bacon
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
The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.
Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 2 - 10 - 05
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice.
Joseph Dunninger, Mentalist
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare Pavese
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.
Abraham Lincoln
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteu
Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.
Jerry Coleman
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
Orison Swett Marden
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison
When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.
H. Allen Smith
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Mark Twain
Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.
James Arthur Baldwin
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Robert Francis Kennedy
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - So they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Frank Lloyd Wright, New York Times, October 4, 1953
Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.
Hasidic Saying
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken
If you tell a lie - - Tell a big one.
Joespeh Goebbels
Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. While we talk, hostile time flies away.
Horace
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
William James
I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn....
Ian Shoales
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve.
Napolean Hill
I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand.
Confucius
Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith in him is unless he knew where his believers are.
Martin Luthe