Lie Quotes

To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.

Edward R. Murrow

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

H. L. Mencken

We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us.

La Rochefoucauld

There is danger in both belief and unbelief.

Phaedrus

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

George Eliot

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Paul Valery

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Saint Thomas Aquinas, Two Precepts of Charity

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety - Nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

W. Wirt

Actions lie louder than words.

Carolyn Wells

It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.

Susan Partnow

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.

Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline".

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Comedy is allied to justice.

Aristophenes

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Jean de La Fontaine

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

Walter Bagehot

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

Harriet Martineau

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.

Theodore Roosevelt

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

Josh Billings

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Mark Twain

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

George Bernard Shaw

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Laurence J. Pete

The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

E. M. Forster, Howards End

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Nancy Reagan

Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Thomas Paine

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

Lucille Ball

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Denis Diderot

The true Church is not an organization, nor does one join it through the noisy mechanics of denominational machinery. Rather it is a living organism, a body, and believers are joined to it by the quiet working of the Holy Spirit.

Cornelius Stam

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

To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Lillian Smith

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

Charles Robert Darwin

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun