Lie Quotes

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese prove

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Nancy Reagan

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Galileo Galilei

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety - Nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

W. Wirt

A lie travels farther than the truth.

Irish Prove

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

Ron Nesen

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

Elizabeth Berg

We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.

Luis Rodriguez, Always Running

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

Max Born

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Thomas Paine

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

Frank Herbert

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Miguel Cervantes

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

William Shakespeare

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

Henry David Thoreau

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass.

American Indian Prove

This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

Victoria Lincoln

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

Plato

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

George William Curtis

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

John Barrymore

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

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

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.

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

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

John Gunthe

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

John Jay Chapman

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Michael Faraday

If there were a verb meaning to believe falsely, it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Dryden

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)

Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Alexander Pope

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Sophia Loren