Lie Quotes

We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety - Nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

W. Wirt

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Freya Madeline Stark

God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preache

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., retort to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, Time, November 1, 1963

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

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

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

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

William James

But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

William Shakespeare

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

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

George J. Seidel

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.

W. H. Auden

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

Marie Dressle

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.

Hasidic Saying

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.

Robert Ingersoll, ? What Must We Do To Be Saved?? (1880)

The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - A trial of spiritual resolve the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.

Ronald Reagan

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line

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

George Santayana

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

Havelock Ellis

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

Ronald Reagan

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

Alfred E. Wiggam

He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.

Benjamin Franklin

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

I do not believe the expenditure of $2. 50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

Evelyn Waugh

Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who believes that his own truth is complete and final must become a dogmatist... The more sincere his faith, the more he is bound to persecute, to save others from falling into error.

Joyce

Most of our future lies ahead.

Denny Crum, Louisville basketball coach

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

John Barrymore

Who lies for you will lie against you.

Bosnian Prove

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Ronnie Lott

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

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Carrie P. Snow

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein