Lie Quotes

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Bertrand Russell

I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.

John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961

On her first meeting with he ex - Husband, Steven Seagal He reminded me of an alien.

Kelly Le Brock

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.

Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15.

Ronald Reagan

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.

S. J. Perelman

The true skeptic will never believe you no matter how much proof you offer him. The true believer does not need it.

Peter James, Ghosts of the Queen Mary

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

Arthur Calwell

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

William Westmoreland

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Aristotle

Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.

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

A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.

Author Unknown

The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.

Theodore Roosevelt

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

Maria Montessori

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Horace Mann

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - So they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Frank Lloyd Wright, New York Times, October 4, 1953

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

Izaak Walton

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas H. Huxley

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Kahlil Gibran

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

E. B. White

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

G. K. Chesterton

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

Johann von Goethe

Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another.

Henry Louis Mencken

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

Richard von Weizscke

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

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Henry David Thoreau

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

Malcolm Boyd

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Diane Ackerman

America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.

President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

Josh Billings

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Alexander Pope

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

Neville Chamberlain

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Michael Korda

For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.

The Talmud