Lie Quotes

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

Albert Einstein

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Richard Feynman

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy

America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esa

It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.

Susan Partnow

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

George Frost Kennan

We have to believe in free will. Weve got no choice.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Bhagavad Gita

I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other.

Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Alexander Hamilton

Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

Lillian Hellman

The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.

Samual Rutherford

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.

Marsha Evans

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Andr Dubus

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Marie Curie

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Louis Pasteu

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Denis Diderot

Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it.

Andr Gide

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Aesop

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Pietro Aretino

Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.

Signs

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Hilaire Belloc

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

William Shakespeare

For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

It is twice as hard to crush a half - Truth as a whole lie.

Unknown

Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

Henry David Thoreau

A thief believes everybody steals.

E. W. Howe

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

John Ruskin