Lie Quotes

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Leo Rosten

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Mark Twain

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

Alfred E. Wiggam

For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.

Herbert Schille

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Henry David Thoreau

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Benjamin Disraeli

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Saint Augustine

He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.

Hunter S. Thompson

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

H. L. Mencken

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Robert Orben

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

William Henry Harrison, Speech, October 1, 1840

Men may seem detestable as joint stock - Companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.

Albert Einstein

As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in.

Edward Bedore

Carlyle said, A lie cannot live; it shows he did not know how to tell them.

Mark Twain

Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

Adam Smith

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Mae West

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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 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

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

Warren Bennis

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

Arthur Calwell

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

Noah Porte

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

Frank Herbert

Most of our so - Called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

James Harvey Robinson

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well - Meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re - Armament

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Author Unknown

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, The autocrat of the breakfast - Table

I believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail.

William Faulkne

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Sydney Harris

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