Lie Quotes
I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.Persian Prove
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
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.Henry James
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.Bertrand Russell
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.Alexander Pope
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.Fran Lebowitz
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.Victor Hugo
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.James Thurbe
With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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
I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.Josh Billings
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.Dominique de Menil
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.Robert Louis Stevenson
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.Mae West
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.Adolph Hitle
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.C. Chesterfield
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.Clive Staples Lewis
A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.Albert Camus
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
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.George William Curtis
Who will relieve me of this Wuthering Height.Sir Winston Churchill
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.Voltaire
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.William Occam
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
Unless you believe, you will not understand.Saint Augustine, De Libero Arbitrio
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
I believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point, I believe in our need for them.Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing, Page 4, final paragraph
A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.Author Unknown
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.Abraham Lincoln
