Lie Quotes
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.The Talmud
Legend a lie that has attained the dignity of age.Henry Louis Mencken
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
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.Mark Twain, (attributed)
Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another.Henry Louis Mencken
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
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.... Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.Abigail Adams, letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don? t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, 1840
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
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.J. W. Alexande
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.Robert Francis Kennedy
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt
There are three kinds of lies lies, damned lies, and statistics.Benjamin Disraeli
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600, 000. No, I replied, I just spent 600, 000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience.Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.Prince Otto
Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.Francis Bacon
I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.Psalm 27 13 - 14 Bible
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.Mark B. Cohen
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.Charles Richte
When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.Friedrich Nietzsche
A half - Truth is a whole lie.Yiddish Prove
I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your right to do so.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Authenticity matters little, though our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.Barbara Mikkelson
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.Aesop
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.Ronald Reagan
We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.Native American
I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.Fran Lebowitz
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.Ambrose Bierce
A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.Albert Camus
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.Mark Twain
If the belief in Christianity did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!Friedrich Nietzsche, "Human, All Too Human" page 87, #120.
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.J. William Fulbright, Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28, 1966
