Lie Quotes

Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

A Bartlett Giamatti

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

Lord Salisbury

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Thomas Carlyle

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil, Aeneid

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

I. F. Stone

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.

Bertrand Russell

Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

Heinrich Heine

Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.

Baltasar Gracian

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Aeschylus

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - The earliest spark in the dreaming youth - Is this: dream a great dream.

John Alan Appleman

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Peter Ustinov, Dear Me (1977)

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

Neville Chamberlain

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

Havelock Ellis

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Don Frase

Most of our future lies ahead.

Denny Crum, Louisville basketball coach

I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?

Chris Martin, Rolling Stone Magazine

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.

There is no shame in not knowing the shame lies in not finding out.

Assyrian Prove

A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. 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

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

G. C. Lichtenberg

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Baltasar Gracian

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

Oscar Levant

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

John Quincy Adams

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Louis D. Brandeis

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Foka Gomez

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.

Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

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

Alice Walke