Lie Quotes

Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Stephen Roberts

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

George Du Maurie

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.

Erich Frohm

For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.

The Talmud

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow - worm.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth.

Alfred Adle

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

Hippocrates

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Prince Otto

Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.

Richard Simmons

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

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

Lord Salisbury

I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.

Fran Lebowitz

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Hermann Hesse

I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.

John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961

Art is a lie that tells the truth.

Pablo Picasso

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

William J. Locke

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

Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.

The Residents "Duck Stab": Bach is Dead

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Dr. Arbthnot

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Everett D. Martin

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff

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

Luis Rodriguez, Always Running

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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 will not forget you.

William Arthur Ward

According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.

Charles Richte

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

Michael Korda

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porte

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

Bellamy Brooks