Lie Quotes
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.James Agee
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest - - But the myth - - Persistant, persuasive and unrealistic.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.Louis D. Brandeis
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love".
Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.Laertius Diogenes
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, Paul Clifford
Desire, ask, believe, receive.Stella Terrill Mann
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.Epictetus
Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.Lou Reed
Believe in life Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.W. E. B. Du Bois
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.John Maynard Keynes
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.Ursula K. LeGuin
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.Denis Diderot
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.Aristotle
My belief is that to have no wants is divine.Socrates
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.W. Somerset Maugham
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.Woody Allen
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
A man said to the Universe: Sir, I exist! However, replied the Universe, the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.Stephen Crane
Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.Dr. Thomas Dooley
To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood", 1803
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.E. B. White
The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.Winston Spencer Churchill
All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.Epictetus
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.William James
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
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.Carrie P. Snow
The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women - Of all classes - Detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion - Mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.George Eliot
Believing where we cannot prove.Alfred, Lord Tennyson
