Lie Quotes

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joesph Conrad, "Carnival of Wit".

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Thomas Paine

Never explain - - Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - And, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Denis Diderot

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

Oh, replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, he told me to come and see you.

Author Unknown

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - That is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.

Unknown

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

There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

William James

All writers - All people - Have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half - Forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.

Sir V Pritchett

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)

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

William Shakespeare

Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al - Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands.

Osama Bin Laden, BBC

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.

Rene Descartes

Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.

Romanian Prove

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.

Epictetus

The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.

Samuel Butle

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Dominique de Menil

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Critisize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.

William A. Ward

The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.

John Owen

Nothing got him angrier than when people implied he was paranoid. It made him feel persecuted.

Robert Sheckley

To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.

King Stanislas I of Poland

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - - And hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U. S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

Stephen Ambrose, D - Day, page 577

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Mark Twain

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Marie Curie

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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.

David P. Mikkelson, snopes. com, February 25, 2000

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.

Susan Partnow