Lie Quotes

Socrates - my belief is that to have no wants is divine....
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
Edgar Watson Howe
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Charles M. Schulz
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line
I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - Not giving and taking.
Joyce Grenfell
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass.
American Indian Prove
Winston spencer churchill - the truth is so precious that she must be...
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
Robert montgomery - if you achieve success, you will get applause,...
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
Robert J. Ringe
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
Mark B. Cohen
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian
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
No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, 1840
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that - Thank Heaven - Nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
J. B. Priestley
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past...
Mikhail Gorbachev, (1988)
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...
Learned Hand
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.
Franklin P. Jones
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
Emerson
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
William Penn
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 believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.
Neil Postman
I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make - Believe!
Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Maria Montessori
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Adolph Hitle
To teach well is to believe in what and whom you teach.
Donna Bulge
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman - Like habits, supplies their demands.
Oscar Wilde
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Richard Adams
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600, 000. No, I replied, I just spent 600, 000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience.
Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine
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
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Henry Fielding
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
Booth Tarkington, Penrod (1914)
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
William Shakespeare
Authenticity matters little, though our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.
Barbara Mikkelson