Lie Quotes

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

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

John A. Locke

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Authenticity matters little, though our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.

Barbara Mikkelson

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. said of Mahatma Gandhi.

Albert Einstein

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

E. V. Lucas

A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.

Cuban Prove

What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Henry David Thoreau

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

A Bartlett Giamatti

To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Lillian Smith

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow - worm.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

Nora Ephron

Men generally believe what they wish.

Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man.

Steven Runciman

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.

Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline".

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Marcel Proust

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - To live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Okakura Kakuzo

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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Tom Robbins

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter, paraphrasing Sir Walter Scott

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Lisa Grossman

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.

Natalie Goldberg, O Magazine, October 2002

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth.

Alfred Adle

Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.

French Prove

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".

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Robert Anton Wilson

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

Karl Kraus

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

Ben Shahn

There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.

Russian prove

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