Lie Quotes

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Laurence J. Pete

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Mark Twain

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.

James Baldwin

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

Richard von Weizscke

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)

I believe the destiny of your generation - And your nation - Is a rendezvous with excellence.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve.

Napolean Hill

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

Stephen Butler Leacock

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

I. F. Stone

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

Sir Winston Churchill

I am a man I hold that nothing human is alien to me.

Terence

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.

G. K. Chesterton

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Dinah Mulock Craik

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

G. K. Chesterton

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - - Even when you? re in the dark. Even when you? re falling.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news - writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.

Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae".

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea - Change Into something rich and strange.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Aesop

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.

M. C. Esche

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.

Dan Quayle, 5/22/89

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.

Epictetus

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

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.

Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline".

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

It is forbidden to decry other sects the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

Asoka

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

Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.

James Arthur Baldwin

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.

A. Huxley, Island

Be a sinner and sin mightily, but more mightily believe and rejoice in Christ.

Martin Luthe

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, We lie.

Simonides, Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae