Lie Quotes

Jack handey deep thoughts - if trees could scream, would we be so cavalier...
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.
Bertrand Russell
I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.
Washington Irving
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
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
I. F. Stone
It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.
Virginia
Frank lloyd wright - i believe in god, only i spell it nature....
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
Edgar Watson Howe
Georg christoph lichtenberg - first there is a time when we believe everything,...
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
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour at Omaha it held up the U. S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.
Stephen Ambrose
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
La Rochefoucauld
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.
William Occam
A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.
Don Frase
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
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
Pliny the Elde
Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.
Jacob Neusne
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese prove
We have to believe in free will. We? ve got no choice.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Times (1982)
I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.
James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003
Oh, replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, he told me to come and see you.
Author Unknown
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that - And shudder.
Bible, James 2: 19 (New International Version)
Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts".
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Madeline Stark
It is forbidden to decry other sects the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
Asoka
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.
Gerald W. Johnston
With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
Ralph Kine
Who will relieve me of this Wuthering Height.
Sir Winston Churchill
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
Louis Pasteu
It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Alexander Pope
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.
Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 2 - 10 - 05
Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
Mark Twain
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
William Shakespeare
Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
Ron Nesen