Lie Quotes

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Willa Cathe

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

C. Chesterfield

What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.

Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.

Dan Quayle, 5/22/89

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Richard Feynman

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

John Maynard Keynes

Each of us, as members of the Body of Christ, has been given at least one spiritual gift. Besides this, there are the natural abilities with which God has endowed us. He intends these to primarily be used for the edification of the Body of believers. There is no such thing as a private gift Rom. 126 - 8.

Bruce Kempe

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

Phil Donahue

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

Stanislaus Lescynski

All of his saves have come in relief appearances.

Ralph Kine

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Diane Ackerman

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Pablo Picasso

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Robert J. Ringe

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein

The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.

David P. Mikkelson, Snopes. com, 04 - 10 - 04

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Roland, "The Last Gunslinger".

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

H. L. Mencken

The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.

Samuel Butle

You are not made happy by the true things you believe from your faith, but by the goodness which comes from your faith.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Arcana Coelestia" #4984

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Marcel Proust

Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

It? s a wonder I haven? t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944

Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.

Richard Simmons

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

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

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

Laurence J. Peter, paraphrasing Sir Walter Scott

Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.

Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible

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

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.

Frank Tyge

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Denis Diderot

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - - Except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets for it is in London that our scene lies, rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton, Paul Clifford

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

George J. Seidel