Lie Quotes

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.

William James

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

Denis Diderot

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Pamela Vaull Sta

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables".

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

Be a sinner and sin mightily, but more mightily believe and rejoice in Christ.

Martin Luthe

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?

Author Unknown

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Kahlil Gibran

He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.

Thomas Fulle

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

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

William Shakespeare

There are three kinds of lies lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

George Bernard Shaw

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.

Thomas Jefferson

To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.

King Stanislas I of Poland

People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Therapy

Homo sum humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a man I hold that nothing human is alien to me.

Terence

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.

Sir Walter Besant

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Okakura Kakuzo

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Pablo Picasso

Most of our students are here to get the credentials they believe are central to admission to the Dream. Everyone does the rhetoric bit - Fascist pig this and that - But push them and they ask you to write recommendations for jobs with banks and insurance companies.

John Gargin

Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.

I believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point, I believe in our need for them.

Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing, Page 4, final paragraph

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Oscar Wilde

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

Benjamin Franklin

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U. S. Senators.

Will Rogers

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.

Felix Cohen

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

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Don Frase

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

Ronald Reagan

I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.

John D. Rockefelle

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.

Coleman Cox

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson