Lie Quotes
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.William Penn
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.Abraham Lincoln
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman - Like habits, supplies their demands.Oscar Wilde
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)
With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.Frank Outlaw
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.James A. Autry
A closed mouth catches no flies.Miguel de Cervantes
The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.John P. Grie
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.Leo Rosten
Blind belief is dangerous.Kenyan Prove
Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.The Residents "Duck Stab": Bach is Dead
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables".
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U. S. Senators.Will Rogers
True strength lies in gentleness.Irish Prove
Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever - wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.Fawn M. Brodie
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.Joesph Conrad, "Carnival of Wit".
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.George Bernard Shaw
I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.Matthew Arnold
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.Robert Francis Kennedy
Authenticity matters little, though our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.Barbara Mikkelson
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.Claude Bernard (1813 - 78)
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.Leo Rosten
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - And on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - And we will neglect it at our peril.President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 p1063
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.Og Mandino
George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - He could not even lie.Mark Twain
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.Felix Cohen
There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H. 96, ll. 11 - 12.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.Candice Bergen
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.Mark Twain
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.Louis D. Brandeis
Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds - - And then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.Michael Crichton, Prey
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.Pablo Picasso
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.Richard Bach
