Lie Quotes

Believe in something larger than yourself.

Barbara Bush

All things are possible to him that believeth.

Mark 9: 23

Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

William Ralph Inge

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

Karl Kraus

Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003

The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.

Bryce Courtenay

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese prove

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

John Maynard Keynes

He who is always his own counselor will often have a fool for his client.

Hunte

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.

G. K. Chesterton

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Charles Dudley Warne

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

Elbert Hubbard

I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your right to do so.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

Alfred Jarry

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

H. L. Mencken

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Cesare Pavese

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Dinah Mulock Craik

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

Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.

Anatole France

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

James Thurbe

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

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Sir William Arthu

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.

William James

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

Author Unknown

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Dag Hammarskjld

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Willa Cather, My Antonia

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Benjamin Franklin

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.

George Jellinek

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Gen. Peyton C. March

After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.

Norman Thomas

There is danger in both belief and unbelief.

Phaedrus

Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.

Matrix, The

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Rmy de Gourmont