Lie Quotes

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.

Gerald W. Johnston

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Garrison Keillo

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

The Divine Pymande

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

George Santayana

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Sydney Harris

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.

Frank Outlaw

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Susan Sontag

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.

James Harvey Robinson

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson

Every man has his follies - - And often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Josh Billings

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

One essential to success is that your desire be an all - Obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co - Ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

Claude M. Bristol

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

Izaak Walton

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.

Epictetus

The chief proof of mans greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

Most of our students are here to get the credentials they believe are central to admission to the Dream. Everyone does the rhetoric bit - Fascist pig this and that - But push them and they ask you to write recommendations for jobs with banks and insurance companies.

John Gargin

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.

Joseph Stalin

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

Anwar el - Sadat

Only lie about the future.

Johnny Carson

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

C. Chesterfield

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Denis Diderot

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Harry S. Truman

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

Pamela Vaull Sta

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds - - And then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.

Michael Crichton, Prey

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

Ronald Reagan

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Truman Capote

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.

Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Denis Diderot

I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

John Keats

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

Kahlil Gibran

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Victor Hugo

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Henry Miller, The Books in My Life