Lie Quotes

All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.

Epictetus

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Clive Staples Lewis

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Erich Fromm

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

Nora Ephron

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

Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

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

W. E. B. Du Bois

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

Havelock Ellis

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.

King Stanislas I of Poland

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Mark Twain

Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.

Thomas a Kempis

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that is too bad.

Kurt Cobain

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

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - - But we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Susan Jeffers

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

James Truslow Adams

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone? s shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I? ll live as I believe.

Whitney Houston, The Greatest Love Of All

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Brigid Brophy

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

Stephen Jay Gould

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

Asoka

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

Rose Macauley

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

Carrie P. Snow

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Michael Faraday

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

William James

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 civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

Albert Einstein

Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, We lie.

Simonides, Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Bern Williams

Most of our future lies ahead.

Denny Crum, Louisville basketball coach

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

Confucius

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin H. Fische