Lie Quotes

Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy.

William Shakespeare

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

Men as well as animals do whatever makes them happy, differences lie in what makes them happy.

B. J. Gupta

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

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

Plato

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

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know three things will never be believed - The true, the probable, and the logical.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent, chapter 2

I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your right to do so.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Henry David Thoreau

If you are near the enemy, make him believe you are far from him. If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

Sun - Tzu

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - - But we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.

Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

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

Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

Legend a lie that has attained the dignity of age.

Henry Louis Mencken

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.

Hietzsche

No one can give you authority. But if you act like you have it, others will believe you do.

Karin Ireland

The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - - And hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewrite.

Woody Allen

Who lies for you will lie against you.

Bosnian Prove

Believing where we cannot prove.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Thomas Carlyle

Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another.

Henry Louis Mencken

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Abraham Lincoln

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion (1927)

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Robertson Davies

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

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

Robert Lynd

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Ronnie Lott

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Hermann Hesse

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

Walter Savage Lando

Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Leo Rosten

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

Albert Einstein