Lie Quotes
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.Havelock Ellis
Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - The wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - For precisely the same reason.Douglas Noel Adams
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.Thomas Carlyle
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.Margaret Fulle
Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea - Change Into something rich and strange.William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.Thomas a Kempis
Every man has his follies - - And often they are the most interesting thing he has got.Josh Billings
Maybe you are the cool generation... If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.Kingman Brewster, Jr.
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.Mohandas Ghandi
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.George Bernard Shaw
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.Romare Beardon
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
They can conquer who believe they can.Virgil
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.Friedrich Nietzsche
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.Irving Layton
I know three things will never be believed - The true, the probable, and the logical.John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent, chapter 2
The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith.Walter Dale Langtry
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.Galileo Galilei
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
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.W. Somerset Maugham
There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.Elizabeth Berg
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.Macduff
Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.Francis Bacon
Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.William S. Burroughs
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.Thomas Wolfe
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
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
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.Robert Oxton Bolt
He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.Hunter S. Thompson
What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.Phil Donahue
Belief is the death of intelligence.Robert Anton Wilson
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.Robert Frost
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.Gerald W. Johnston
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.Frank Lloyd Wright
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline".
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make - Believe!Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify
