Lie Quotes

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.

Invincibility lies in the defense the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends when his strength is inadequate he attacks when it is abundant.

Sun - Tzu

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - - That doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

Sydney Harris

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A half - Truth is a whole lie.

Yiddish Prove

Comedy is allied to justice.

Aristophenes

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

Ellen G. White

Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

Heinrich Heine

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Saint Thomas Aquinas, Two Precepts of Charity

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us.

La Rochefoucauld

All writers - All people - Have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half - Forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.

Sir V Pritchett

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God? s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.

George Washington Carve

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

Josh Billings

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw

Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Foka Gomez

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth.

Dag Hammarskjold, newspaper quote of the day

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.

Herbert Schille

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

Margot Asquith

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Brigid Brophy

People will believe anything. They will believe it because they want it to be true, or because they are afraid it is.

Terry Goodkind

I am a man I hold that nothing human is alien to me.

Terence

To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.

Unknown

Man is a make - Believe animal - He is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

William Hazlitt

The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Persian Prove

Most of our students are here to get the credentials they believe are central to admission to the Dream. Everyone does the rhetoric bit - Fascist pig this and that - But push them and they ask you to write recommendations for jobs with banks and insurance companies.

John Gargin

A man said to the Universe: Sir, I exist! However, replied the Universe, the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.

Stephen Crane

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

Ronald Reagan

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Alexander Hamilton