Lie Quotes
I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.Neil Postman
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.La Rochefoucauld
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.Sir Francis Bacon
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion (1927)
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, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.George Carlin
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news - writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae".
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.Anatole France
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!Theophile Gautie
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other.Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.Albert Einstein
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.Author Unknown
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.Alan J. Perlis
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
Men willingly believe what they wish.Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico
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
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.Saint Thomas Aquinas, Two Precepts of Charity
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
In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.Anne Frank, The diary of Anne Frank
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!Louise Bogan
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.George William Curtis
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.Andre Gide
All of his saves have come in relief appearances.Ralph Kine
I believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point, I believe in our need for them.Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing, Page 4, final paragraph
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.Samuel Johnson
The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.John P. Grie
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.Mark Twain, (attributed)
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
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.Ovid, Metamorphoses
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
This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 5 scene 7
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.George Bernard Shaw
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.D. Elton Trueblood
Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.Denis Johnston
