Lie Quotes

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

Frank Herbert

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

I. F. Stone

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.

Unknown

Nothing is easier than self - Deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Never explain - - Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.

Unknown

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Okakura Kakuzo

Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.

Oliver Herford

Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple - Minded...

Plato, _Phaedrus_

We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.

Native American

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Paddy Chayefsky

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.

Felix Cohen

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 03 - 11 - 04

I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.

Benjamin Franklin

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Evan Esa

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Matt Groening

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.

Thomas Jefferson

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Alan J. Perlis

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Laurence J. Pete

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

Theophile Gautie

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well - Meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re - Armament

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - That is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

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

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

Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.

The Talmud

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.

Albert Einstein

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.

William Occam

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make - Believe!

Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U. S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

Stephen Ambrose, D - Day, page 577

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Horace Mann

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James