Lie Quotes

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Paul Valery

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company

The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.

Jonathan Berry

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy.

Louise Bogan

Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.

Gloria Steinem

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.

Sir Walter Besant

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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Tom Robbins

There is no shame in not knowing the shame lies in not finding out.

Assyrian Prove

The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the division of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

Adam Smith

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

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

For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.

The Talmud

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man.

Steven Runciman

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Matt Groening

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Fred Rogers

Men generally believe what they wish.

Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold - Bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

James R. Lowell

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

William Shakespeare

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.

Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

Kahlil Gibran

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Oscar Wilde

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Carl Jung

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe