Lie Quotes

Blind belief is dangerous.

Kenyan Prove

The really happy man never laughs - Seldom - Though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laugther, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - And the happy are not over strung.

Prof. F. A. P. Aveling

True strength lies in gentleness.

Irish Prove

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have And take the step into the darkness of the unknown We must believe that one of two things wil happen... There will be something solid for us to stand on.. ..... or we will be taught to fly.

Patrick Overton

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

H. L. Mencken

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

Henry Christopher Bailey

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel

Men may seem detestable as joint stock - Companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

Frank Herbert

With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

Norman R. Augustine

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.

John Ruskin

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

Sir Henry Wotton

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

All the means of action - The shapeless masses - The materials - Lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents - - Except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets for it is in London that our scene lies, rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Sir Francis Bacon

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.

Martin Luthe

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Joseph Brodsky

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea - Change Into something rich and strange.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world.

Euripides

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Mohandas Ghandi

Be a sinner and sin mightily, but more mightily believe and rejoice in Christ.

Martin Luthe

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well - Meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re - Armament

For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.

The Talmud

I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me.

Terence

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Susan Sontag

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002

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

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

Fran Lebowitz