Lie Quotes
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.Benjamin Disraeli
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)
One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. On Soviet and Allied missiles in Europe.Margaret Hilda Thatche
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.Robert Frost
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.Thomas Wolfe
Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term etymology was formed from the Latin etus eaten, the root mal bad, and logy study of. It meant the study of things that are hard to swallow.Mike Kellen
Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.F. F. Bosworth
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.Mark Twain
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.John Maynard Keynes
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.Michael Korda
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.George Gordon Byron
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.John Maynard Keynes
Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.Thomas Carlyle
Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.W. L. George
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.Walter Bagehot
Virginity is in the lies of the beholder.The Clown Prince of Darkness
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".
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - A trial of spiritual resolve the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.Ronald Reagan
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.George Du Maurie
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.Andr Dubus
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.D. A. Battista
Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.Foka Gomez
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow - worm.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.John F. Kennedy
They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.Henry David Thoreau
On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.Unknown
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.Samuel Johnson
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.Vincent Van Gogh
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.Wilson Mizne
No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, 1840
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.Albert Einstein
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.Robert Oxton Bolt
A half - Truth is a whole lie.Yiddish Prove
A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.Unknown
Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.Virgil, Aeneid
