Lie Quotes

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

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.

Herbert Schille

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Bertrand Russell

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.

Bertrand Russell

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man.

Steven Runciman

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

Mark Twain

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

Dinah Mulock Craik

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

Arthur Wing Pinero

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man to know what he ought to believe to know what he ought to desire and to know what he ought to do.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

Mary Catherine Bateson

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

J Danforth Quayle

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Michael Korda

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

Felix Cohen

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.

D. A. Battista

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - - That doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

Booth Tarkington, Penrod (1914)

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.

Natalie Goldberg, O Magazine, October 2002

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

Lillian Hellman

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea - Change Into something rich and strange.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

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

Pablo Picasso

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Willa Cather, My Antonia

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

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Richard Wagne

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty.

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Sophocles, Ajax

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

Hermione Gingold

Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

Dan Quayle, 8/11/89

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin H. Fische

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

R. D. Laing