Lie Quotes

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

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

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.

Erich Frohm

If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.

Chinese Prove

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

Eric Hoffe

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

Alfred Korzybski

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Sophocles, Ajax

After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.

Norman Thomas

I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.

Fran Lebowitz

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

Lord Salisbury

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Alan J. Perlis

Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

Oscar Levant

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

Richard von Weizscke

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Peter Ustinov, Dear Me (1977)

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

Mark Twain

Maybe you are the cool generation... If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

J. P Morgan, when asked what the stock market will do, replied,

It will fluctuate.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.... Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Abigail Adams, letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

Umberto Eco

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteu

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

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

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. While we talk, hostile time flies away.

Horace

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In order to suceed, We must first believe that we can.

Michael Korda

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 want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

Donald Culross Peattie

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

Alice Walker, Living by the Word, 1988

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith in him is unless he knew where his believers are.

Martin Luthe

Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.

Jameson Green