Lie Quotes

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

William J. Locke

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Fred Rogers

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, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5

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

Hello, he lied.

Don Carpenter quoting a Hollywood agent

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

William Blake

There are only two families in the world, the Haves and Have - Nots.

Miguel de Cervantes

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alfred Alde

Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.

William James

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.

Baltasar Gracian

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Maria Montessori

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Dr. Thomas Dooley

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

Liberace

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Gaston Bachelard

Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Willa Cathe

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.

Agnes De Mille

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

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Cesare Pavese

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the godsThey kill us for their sport.

William Shakespeare

The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

E. M. Forster, Howards End

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Richard Dawkins

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

John Ruskin

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947

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

Assyrian Prove

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

Booth Tarkington, Penrod (1914)

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.

Henry James

No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!

We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed.

Rosalind Sussman Yalow

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Aristotle

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

G. K. Chesterton

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Mae West

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