Lie Quotes

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

Robert J. McKain

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

Martin H. Fische

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him.

William Shakespeare

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Eugene Paul Wigne

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Ludwig Mises

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Plato

I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.

Benjamin Franklin

Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Margaret Atwood

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - The earliest spark in the dreaming youth - Is this dream a great dream.

John A. Appleman

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Hal Borland

Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al - Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands.

Osama Bin Laden, BBC

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson, on ESP

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

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.

Abraham Lincoln

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.

Clive

Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.

Sir Ronald A. Fishe

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.

Hasidic Saying

Men generally believe what they wish.

Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

George Carlin

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

G. C. Lichtenberg

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Stephen Butler Leacock

It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents - - Except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets for it is in London that our scene lies, rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.

Gloria Steinem

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits.

Carl Sagan

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Mark Twain

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteu

Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the furture, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns.

Joseph Weizenbaum

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - And, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.

Rene Descartes

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it.

Andr Gide

To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.

King Stanislas I of Poland