Lie Quotes

Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Denis Diderot

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusion.

Maurice Chapelain

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?

Carl Sagan

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Albert Einstein

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book

A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.

Cuban Prove

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

Mark Twain

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.

Agnes de Mille

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - - But we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

Denis Johnston

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

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Henry Ford

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin H. Fische

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.

John Ruskin

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

Robert Sheckley

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

I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.

George Eliot

Any fool can tell the truth; it takes talent to lie well.

Robert Ludlum, "The Tristan Betrayal".

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Lyman Beeche

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

I. F. Stone

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.

George Gordon Byron

A man is accepted into church for what he believes - - And turned out for what he knows.

Mark Twain

If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this enjoy it but never quite believe it.

Robert Montgomery

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

John Burroughs

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

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

Neville Chamberlain

A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture.

Mick Lloyd Kerman

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

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Richard Dawkins

Lie Down and Roll Over and 159 Other Ways To Say I Love You.

Book title by Erskine & Moran - 1981

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.

Unknown

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

George John Whyte - Melville

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Roland, "The Last Gunslinger".

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Peter Ustinov, Dear Me (1977)