Lie Quotes

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Bertrand Russell

Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Thomas Huxley

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

George Santayana

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

Bellamy Brooks

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

Adam Smith

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

William James

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas H. Huxley

What should move us to action is human dignity the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Dominique de Menil

Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

Virginity is in the lies of the beholder.

The Clown Prince of Darkness

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

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

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Vince Lombardi

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Homer, The Iliad

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Stephen A. Brennan

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line

Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.

Laertius Diogenes

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

Neville Chamberlain

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Ursula K. LeGuin

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

Pythagoras

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

Von Weizsacke

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

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

Author Unknown

America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esa

There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.

Edmund Burke

Most of our future lies ahead.

Denny Crum, Louisville basketball coach

Art is a lie that tells the truth.

Pablo Picasso

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

Mark Twain

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Whitney Moore, Jr.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 03 - 11 - 04

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Camille Paglia

A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture.

Mick Lloyd Kerman

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