Lie Quotes

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Giordano Bruno

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

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Author Unknown

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.

Swedish Prove

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Homer, The Iliad

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Charles De Gaulle

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.

John Schumake

Within the problem lies the solution.

Milton Katselas

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Michel de Montaigne

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

Ronald Knox

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy.

Louise Bogan

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

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

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

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel

Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term etymology was formed from the Latin etus eaten, the root mal bad, and logy study of. It meant the study of things that are hard to swallow.

Mike Kellen

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

Michael Faraday

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - The earliest spark in the dreaming youth - Is this: dream a great dream.

John Alan Appleman

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Benjamin Disraeli

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.

Albert Einstein

Our Constitution protects aliens, drunks, and U. S. senators.

Will Rogers

We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell

Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope, "Ode to Solitude".

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

Bertrand Russell

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

Francis Bacon

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull Sta

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Aristotle

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Richard Feynman

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Besseme

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Dr. Arbthnot

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

Mark Twain, (attributed)

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