Lie Quotes

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Bertrand Russell

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Marcel Proust

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

Orison Swett Marden

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

Tom Robbins

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Camille Paglia

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

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

Stephen Butler Leacock

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.

Robert Oxton Bolt

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Henry Louis Mencken

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

H. L. Mencken

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - That is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Freya Madeline Stark

We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

Alfred Jarry

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Francis Bacon

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

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

Claud Cockburn

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company

Each of us, as members of the Body of Christ, has been given at least one spiritual gift. Besides this, there are the natural abilities with which God has endowed us. He intends these to primarily be used for the edification of the Body of believers. There is no such thing as a private gift Rom. 126 - 8.

Bruce Kempe

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

Jacob Neusne

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

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

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

Lady Bird Johnson

In order to suceed, We must first believe that we can.

Michael Korda

The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.

Bryce Courtenay

A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...

CIA Manual

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

Plato

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

The chief proof of mans greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Sir William Arthu

This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

Victoria Lincoln

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination.

Tommy Lasorda

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Aesop

Comedy is allied to justice.

Aristophenes

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Peggy Noonan