Lie Quotes

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice.

Joseph Dunninger, Mentalist

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Neil Postman

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - And, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

William Penn

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Sophia Loren

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

Max Born

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

Albert Einstein

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

Lady Bird Johnson

A belief is not true because it is useful.

Henri Frdric Amiel

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

Elizabeth Berg

Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Stephen A. Brennan

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

W. Clement Stone

The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings.

Shakespeare.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.

Frank Zappa

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

Umberto Eco

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, The autocrat of the breakfast - Table

I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Benjamin Franklin

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Mark Twain

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Hello, he lied.

Don Carpenter quoting a Hollywood agent

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.

Maurice Chapelain

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.

Gloria Steinem

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

J. William Fulbright, Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28, 1966

A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two.

Richard Kehl

Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.

Baltasar Gracian

A lie travels farther than the truth.

Irish Prove

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

Francis Bacon

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass.

American Indian Prove