Lie Quotes

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

Karl Kraus

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha

I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other.

Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. On steel industry executives who increased prices.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

That is not dead which can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die.

HP Lovecraft, Quoting the Necronomicon, in The Nameless City

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the division of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)

The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Persian Prove

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

Thomas Hardy

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

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts".

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Willa Cather, My Antonia

The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - A trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.

Ronald Reagan

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteu

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

Martin Luthe

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain

Only lie about the future.

Johnny Carson

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.

Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Giordano Bruno

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

E. e. cummings

I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.

Frank Deford

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

Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the furture, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns.

Joseph Weizenbaum

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

Homer, The Odyssey

Actions lie louder than words.

Carolyn Wells

Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Foka Gomez

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15.

Ronald Reagan

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator.

Johann von Goethe

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Everett D. Martin

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

Stanislaus Lescynski

To teach well is to believe in what and whom you teach.

Donna Bulge

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Dag Hammarskjld

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

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Jean de La Fontaine