Lie Quotes
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.Arthur Hays Sulzberge
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.Richard Feynman
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.Learned Hand, jurist
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.Claud Cockburn
Every man has his follies - - And often they are the most interesting thing he has got.Josh Billings
I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.Martin Luthe
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love".
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.Montesquieu
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. - - Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U. S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.Pablo Picasso
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make - Believe!Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify
Be a sinner and sin mightily, but more mightily believe and rejoice in Christ.Martin Luthe
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.George Santayana
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.Louis Kronenberge
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Invincibility lies in the defense the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends when his strength is inadequate he attacks when it is abundant.Sun - Tzu
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
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.Alice Walker, Living by the Word, 1988
To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth.Charles - Damian Boulogne
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts".
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.Sophy Burnham
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 believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, December 2003
When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.H. Allen Smith
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.Maria Montessori
So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinite in all directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the small.Emil Wiechert
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.Thomas Carlyle
Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.Sophocles, Ajax
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)
Mankind is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.Sir Winston Churchill
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.Kent Nerburn
Who could follow Carson? Well, believe me, somebody can - And will.Johnny Carson, Playboy Interview - December 1967
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.Thomas Carlyle
In order to suceed, We must first believe that we can.Michael Korda
