Lie Quotes

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him.

William Shakespeare

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

Bellamy Brooks

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

Every man has his follies - - And often they are the most interesting thing he had got.

Josh Billings

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinite in all directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the small.

Emil Wiechert

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

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

Andre Gide

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

Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Margaret Atwood

Maybe you are the cool generation... If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

We believe he wanted to win in the worst way.

Don Eslinger, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Albert Einstein

Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

Henry David Thoreau

I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?

Chris Martin, Rolling Stone Magazine

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

William Westmoreland

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Michel de Montaigne

We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.

H. Allen Smith

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the godsThey kill us for their sport.

William Shakespeare

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

Phillip K. Dick

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.

Edmund Burke

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.

Beatrix Potte

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Colin Powell

I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.

George Eliot

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

George William Curtis

A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two.

Richard Kehl

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Alan Watts

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull Sta

Most of our future lies ahead.

Denny Crum, Louisville basketball coach

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Who will relieve me of this Wuthering Height.

Sir Winston Churchill

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt