Lie Quotes
When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - The earliest spark in the dreaming youth - Is this dream a great dream.John A. Appleman
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.Franklin P. Jones
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.Claud Cockburn
If there were a verb meaning to believe falsely, it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.Ludwig Wittgenstein
Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.Richard Simmons
You must believe in God in spite of what the clergy say.Benjamin Jowett
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
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
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
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.Philip Howard
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.Edith Sitwell
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.Clive
The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface.Aldous Huxley
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.Stanislaw J. Lec
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - So they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.Frank Lloyd Wright, New York Times, October 4, 1953
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.William James
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
Desire, ask, believe, receive.Stella Terrill Mann
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.Horace Mann
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
Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.John Cogley Commonweal
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.Conte Camillo Benso di Cavou
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.Plutarch, Morals
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - The earliest spark in the dreaming youth - Is this: dream a great dream.John Alan Appleman
I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.Fidel Castro, Playboy Interview - January 1967
Men as well as animals do whatever makes them happy, differences lie in what makes them happy.B. J. Gupta
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - - Except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets for it is in London that our scene lies, rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.Edward Bulwer - Lytton, Paul Clifford
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.Thomas Jefferson
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.Thomas Carlyle
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is always his own counselor will often have a fool for his client.Hunte
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.Henry David Thoreau
What the people believe is true. Anishinabe.American Indian Prove
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.Erich Fromm
