Lie Quotes

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. Mencken

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

Ronald Knox

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillo

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Alfred Alde

All the means of action - The shapeless masses - The materials - Lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Buddha

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

R. D. Laing

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

Martin H. Fische

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

Epicurus

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

John Maynard Keynes

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Bernard Berenson

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Albert Einstein

I am a man I hold that nothing human is alien to me.

Terence

It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

Woody Allen

Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.

John Cogley Commonweal

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Jean de La Fontaine

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables".

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

Hippocrates

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

Felix Cohen

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

Umberto Eco

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Maurice Chapelain

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Thomas Hardy

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Clive Staples Lewis

He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

The nature of men and women - Their essential nature - Is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

W. Somerset Maugham

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true skeptic will never believe you no matter how much proof you offer him. The true believer does not need it.

Peter James, Ghosts of the Queen Mary

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

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

Willa Cather, My Antonia

Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.

Romare Beardon

No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?

Carl L. Becke