Lie Quotes

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

James Agee

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

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Aristotle, unknown

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

Lou Dorfsman

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.

Unknown

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Thomas Wolfe

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

Jean - Paul Sartre

The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.

Author Unknown

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!

Alfred A. Montapert

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

Orison Swett Marden

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.

Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974

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 for something and that this thing must be attained.

Marie Curie

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest - - But the myth - - Persistant, persuasive and unrealistic.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

James Truslow Adams

Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.

Baltasar Gracian

I believe that if i should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.

Benito Perez Galdos

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, The autocrat of the breakfast - Table

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull Sta

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Plato

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

Karl Kraus

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Henry Louis Mencken

I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?

Chris Martin, Rolling Stone Magazine

Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.

F. F. Bosworth

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Mae West

I believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail.

William Faulkne

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Alan Watts

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

John Quincy Adams

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

Stephen Jay Gould

Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Phillip K. Dick

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Buddha

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

Wilson Mizne

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

H. L. Mencken

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.

S. J. Perelman