Lie Quotes

Alexander hamilton - men give me credit for some genius. all the...
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
Mary Catherine Bateson
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
Louis Pasteu
When we walk to the edge of all the light we have And take the step into the darkness of the unknown We must believe that one of two things wil happen... There will be something solid for us to stand on.. ..... or we will be taught to fly.
Patrick Overton
Pride sullies the noblest character.
Claudianus
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
Ambrose of Milan
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
Pliny the elde - why is it that we entertain the belief that for...
I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.
Coleman Cox
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
Edith Sitwell
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.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
Oscar Levant
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.
Erich Fromm
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
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
Most of our future lies ahead.
Denny Crum, Louisville basketball coach
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Bernard Berenson
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.
S. J. Perelman
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
Kent Nerburn
I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.
Joyce Strange
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The true Church is not an organization, nor does one join it through the noisy mechanics of denominational machinery. Rather it is a living organism, a body, and believers are joined to it by the quiet working of the Holy Spirit.
Cornelius Stam
He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.
Hunter S. Thompson
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.
William James
Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Francis Bacon
Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.
Author Unknown
Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.
Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
E. V. Lucas
In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank, The diary of Anne Frank
I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
Homer, The Iliad
Truth is the safest lie.
Jewish Prove
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
Sydney Harris
Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well - Meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.
Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re - Armament
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Marcel Proust