Lie Quotes

We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Denis Diderot

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

To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Lillian Smith

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

Izaak Walton

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

C. C. Colton

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Erich Fromm

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

John Maynard Keynes

A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.

Cuban Prove

We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

Believing where we cannot prove.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillo

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Dinah Mulock Craik

He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

Homer, The Odyssey

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

William Westmoreland

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

Adolph Hitle

Who could follow Carson? Well, believe me, somebody can - And will.

Johnny Carson, Playboy Interview - December 1967

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

Hippocrates

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - Not giving and taking.

Joyce Grenfell

Nothing got him angrier than when people implied he was paranoid. It made him feel persecuted.

Robert Sheckley

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

Kahlil Gibran

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

Josh Billings

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.

Spider - Man

This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

Victoria Lincoln

Any fool can tell the truth; it takes talent to lie well.

Robert Ludlum, "The Tristan Betrayal".

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

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

Umberto Eco

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

Robert J. McKain

I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.

Basil W. Maturin

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

George Santayana

Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.

Jameson Green

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

Epicurus

When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche