Lie Quotes

Author unknown - having supplied them with names, omnipotence,...
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
Ronnie Lott
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. said of Mahatma Gandhi.
Albert Einstein
Whoso loves, believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.
Author Unknown
Sophy burnham - to believe in god or in a guiding force because...
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.
Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6
Albert einstein - now he has departed from this strange world a...
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
D. A. Battista
Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.
Noah Porte
For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - It saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
Louis Kronenberge
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.
The Talmud
There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that.
Albert Einstein
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
Mary Catherine Bateson
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.
Thomas Jefferson
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
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
To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, ... to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.
Ernest Hemingway
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewrite.
Woody Allen
So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!
William Shakespeare
Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.
C. A. Bartol
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
Claude Bernard (1813 - 78)
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
Al Batt, in National Enquire
Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.
Fulton John Sheen
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
C. Chesterfield
Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it.
Andr Gide
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
Robert Orben
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
William Penn
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make - Believe!
Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
There are only two families in the world, the Haves and Have - Nots.
Miguel de Cervantes
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