Lie Quotes

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Robert J. Ringe

Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

Muhammad

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".

A man is accepted into church for what he believes - - And turned out for what he knows.

Mark Twain

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.

Bertrand Russell

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

A half - Truth is a whole lie.

Yiddish Prove

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.

Coleman Cox

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Bertrand Russell

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil, Aeneid

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.

Unknown

Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world.

Euripides

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

Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ambrose Bierce

The really happy man never laughs - Seldom - Though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laugther, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - And the happy are not over strung.

Prof. F. A. P. Aveling

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

A. Huxley, Island

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.

Hasidic Saying

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese prove

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".

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

William James

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U. S. Senators.

Will Rogers

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

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

Sophia Loren

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Leo Rosten

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.

Felix Cohen

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.

Homer, The Iliad

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.

Gloria Steinem

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Buddha

Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason.

James Ramsey

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.

Anatole France

As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.

Robertson Davies

God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Denis Diderot

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley