Lie Quotes
Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.Denis Johnston
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.Gloria Steinem
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits.Carl Sagan
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.Anatole France
The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith.Walter Dale Langtry
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.C. Chesterfield
The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusion.Maurice Chapelain
When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.H. Allen Smith
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.Jean de La Fontaine
When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.Frank Outlaw
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.Charles Dudley Warne
The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.Author Unknown
Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.William Penn
Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.W. L. George
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.James Madison
Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - The wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - For precisely the same reason.Douglas Noel Adams
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.Pope John Paul II
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - The earliest spark in the dreaming youth - Is this: dream a great dream.John Alan Appleman
To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.Unknown
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.Bhagavad Gita
I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn....Ian Shoales
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon.Maria Montessori
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.Erich Fromm
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.George Santayana
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done - - Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.Vince Lombardi
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.Albert Einstein
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
The people of the States now confederated..... believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves.Jefferson Davis
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.Honore de Balzac
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.Isaac Bashevis Singe
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.Theodore Roosevelt
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.Homer, The Odyssey
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.George Bernard Shaw
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.John Stuart Mill
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone? s shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I? ll live as I believe.Whitney Houston, The Greatest Love Of All
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts".
