Lie Quotes

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

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.

James Baldwin

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

Sir Henry Wotton

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933

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

Alfred Adle

He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.

Spanish Prove

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

Albert Camus

Most of our so - Called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

James Harvey Robinson

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Stanislaw J. Lec

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

Author Unknown

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

David Ben - Gurion

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

Susan Jeffers

Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

E. B. White

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

Charles Robert Darwin

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

Ronald Knox

Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.

Martin Luthe

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt, in National Enquire

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

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Susan Sontag

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

Emerson

If kids come to us educatorsteachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

Barbara Colorose

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 lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits.

Carl Sagan

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Bertrand Russell

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Dale Carnegie

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Homo sum humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a man I hold that nothing human is alien to me.

Terence

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

Johann von Goethe

Carlyle said, A lie cannot live; it shows he did not know how to tell them.

Mark Twain