Lie Quotes

Ralph waldo emerson - shallow men believe in luck. strong men believe...
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Gerry Spence
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
Albert Einstein
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables".
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
Louis D. Brandeis
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill
No man ever quite believes in any other man.
Henry Louis Mencken
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
Julius rosenwald - do not be fooled into believing that because a...
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
Unknown
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
Ben Shahn
No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?
Carl L. Becke
Oh, replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, he told me to come and see you.
Author Unknown
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.
Hietzsche
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Thomas H. Huxley
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.
Robert Oxton Bolt
None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.
Muhammad
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
Mae West
A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
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
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken
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
Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
A man is accepted into church for what he believes - - And turned out for what he knows.
Mark Twain
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Clive Staples Lewis
Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
William Penn
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
Arthur Wing Pinero
There are only two families in the world, the Haves and Have - Nots.
Miguel de Cervantes
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.
Abraham Lincoln
A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
Epicurus
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600, 000. No, I replied, I just spent 600, 000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience.
Thomas John Watson, Sr.
If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don? t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Virginity is in the lies of the beholder.
The Clown Prince of Darkness
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
Author Unknown