Lie Quotes

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusion.

Maurice Chapelain

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

Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?

Richard D. Rosen

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

Walter Savage Lando

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

George Santayana

I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.

Richard Pryo

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

Sir Winston Churchill

Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.

I. F. Stone 1907 - 1989

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

If there were a verb meaning to believe falsely, it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - - And hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf

You have to believe that the universe will provide.

Steve Crosby

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

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

Men generally believe what they wish.

Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

William James

The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.

Jonathan Berry

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

Martin Luthe

I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day.

William Gordon

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Bertrand Russell

A man said to the Universe: Sir, I exist! However, replied the Universe, the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.

Stephen Crane

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.

Raisa M. Gorbachev

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Sophocles, Ajax

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

George Eliot

I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

Michel de Montaigne

If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

John Maynard Keynes

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

John Buchan

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

Karl Kraus

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - Not giving and taking.

Joyce Grenfell

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

Dick Gregory

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese prove

I believe that if i should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.

Benito Perez Galdos