Lie Quotes

That is not dead which can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die.

HP Lovecraft, Quoting the Necronomicon, in The Nameless City

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice.

Joseph Dunninger, Mentalist

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1850

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - And, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Legend a lie that has attained the dignity of age.

Henry Louis Mencken

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this enjoy it but never quite believe it.

Robert Montgomery

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

Andre Gide

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Schulz

God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preache

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Alice Walke

No one can give you authority. But if you act like you have it, others will believe you do.

Karin Ireland

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

John Barrymore

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Thomas Paine

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteu

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

Harold Taylo

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warne

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.

Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

William Shakespeare

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.

Author Unknown

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Colin Powell

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty.

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.

Baltasar Gracian

Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple - Minded...

Plato, _Phaedrus_

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter, paraphrasing Sir Walter Scott

Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - But sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Louis D. Brandeis