Lie Quotes
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
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.Bertrand Russell
All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own.Sir Richard Francis Burton
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.Thomas Jefferson
I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.Joseph Stalin
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.J. William Fulbright, Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28, 1966
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.William S. Gilbert
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion (1927)
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.Sir Francis Bacon
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.Agnes De Mille
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.I. F. Stone 1907 - 1989
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.Thomas Paine
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.The Talmud
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.Oscar Wilde
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth.Charles - Damian Boulogne
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.Leo Rosten
Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.Benjamin Disraeli
I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me.Terence
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.Edward Gibbon
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.Adolf Hitle
If you are near the enemy, make him believe you are far from him. If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.Sun - Tzu
Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.Joseph Sugarman
Men as well as animals do whatever makes them happy, differences lie in what makes them happy.B. J. Gupta
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.W. E. B. Du Bois, last message to the world, 1957
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.H. L. Mencken
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
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.Andre Gide
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eric Draven Little things use to mean so much to Shelley - I thought they were kind of trivial. Believe me, nothing is trivial.Crow, The
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 thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface.Aldous Huxley
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.D. H. Lawrence
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
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!Alfred A. Montapert
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - - But we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
