Lie Quotes

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
Henry Louis Mencken
Richard wagne - i believe in god, mozart, and beethoven....
Booth tarkington, penrod (1914) - there are two things that will be believed of any...
We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad.
Dorothe Deluzy
This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 5 scene 7
Aristotle, from diogenes laertius, lives of eminent philosophers - liars when they speak the truth are not believed....
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.
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
J. William Fulbright, Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28, 1966
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
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
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry Kissinge
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.
President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio
Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.
Virgil, Aeneid
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
Plato
In order to suceed, We must first believe that we can.
Michael Korda
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Bernard Berenson
Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.
John Schumake
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
All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
Ralph Kine
Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
H. L. Mencken
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Sophocles
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
Eric Hoffe
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
Homer, The Odyssey
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine
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 wil happen... There will be something solid for us to stand on.. ..... or we will be taught to fly.
Patrick Overton
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.
Franklin P. Jones
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
John Jay Chapman
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
George Eliot
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Willa Cathe
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
Theodore Roosevelt
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
Mark Twain
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
La Rochefoucauld
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
William James
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson