Lie Quotes

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.

Martin Cruz Smith on being asked how he liked the movie version of his novel Gorky Park.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)

On her first meeting with he ex - Husband, Steven Seagal He reminded me of an alien.

Kelly Le Brock

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.

Agnes De Mille

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

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Denis Diderot

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Francis Bacon

Self - Loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self - Neglecting.

William Shakespeare

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.

D. A. Battista

He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.

Thomas Fulle

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it.

Lao Tzu

Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?

Author Unknown

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Johann von Goethe

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Schulz

There are only two families in the world, the Haves and Have - Nots.

Miguel de Cervantes

Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.

French Prove

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.

James Baldwin

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusion.

Maurice Chapelain

Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.

William S. Burroughs

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Michael Korda

There are laws for everything except the harm families do.

Sue Grafton, "D" is for Deadbeat

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

Sydney Harris

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - - But we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.

Unknown

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank

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

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

Horace Mann

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

John A. Locke

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.

Adolf Hitle

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.

Baltasar Gracian

Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - But sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith in him is unless he knew where his believers are.

Martin Luthe