Lie Quotes

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

Theophile Gautie

Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.

F. F. Bosworth

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

Marie Dressle

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

Jacob Neusne

I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.

M. C. Esche

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

Arthur Calwell

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Carl Sagan

Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Phillip K. Dick

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

Harold Taylo

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

George William Curtis

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1850

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.

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

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Aristotle, unknown

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Joseph Addison

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Bernard Berenson

We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.

Luis Rodriguez, Always Running

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Margaret Fulle

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.

Elbert Hubbard

I know three things will never be believed - The true, the probable, and the logical.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent, chapter 2

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

Oscar Wilde

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

Kent Nerburn

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Colin Powell

Authenticity matters little, though our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.

Barbara Mikkelson

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Richard Dawkins

The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.

John P. Grie

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Oscar Wilde

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.

William Occam

He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.

Spanish Prove

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - The wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - For precisely the same reason.

Douglas Noel Adams

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

William Ralph Inge