Lie Quotes

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value - - A test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

T. S. Eliot

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

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

W. Clement Stone

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

George Eliot

The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.

Samuel Butle

There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.

Russian prove

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

Richard Feynman

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have And take the step into the darkness of the unknown We must believe that one of two things wil happen... There will be something solid for us to stand on.. ..... or we will be taught to fly.

Patrick Overton

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.

Quintilian

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

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

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.

Abraham Lincoln

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

Thomas Hardy

Actions lie louder than words.

Carolyn Wells

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

Pablo Picasso

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Voltaire

Eric Draven Little things use to mean so much to Shelley - I thought they were kind of trivial. Believe me, nothing is trivial.

Crow, The

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

Martin Luthe

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is danger in both belief and unbelief.

Phaedrus

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it.

Lao Tzu

The only ism Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

Dorothy Parke

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

Ellen G. White

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

Virginia

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

Johann von Goethe

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

William James

Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

Heinrich Heine

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alfred Alde

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Brigid Brophy

Charlie Dad, how can you hate The Colonel Stuart Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass.

So I Married an Axe Murdere

No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Roland, "The Last Gunslinger".

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866

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