Lying Quotes · Page 120

“Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long

— Emanuel Lasker

The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

— Charles Spurgeon

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse

— Chogyam Trungpa

With the truth you can be quite causal, with lying you must be very exact.

— Hans Kasper

What the lying tung won't say is that good ears won't hear ..

— Melchor Lim

Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.

— Kenny Werner

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

— Khalil Gibran

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or…

— Abraham Lincoln

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides…

— Harry S Truman

I feel I like portraying women-centric roles, since I can express pent-up frustrations and suppressed feelings lying deep inside a female soul.

— Rituparna Sengupta

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent…

— Alexander Pope

Larry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another…

— Magic Johnson

For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is…

— Andrei Sakharov

“... if you can't be happy then be quiet!" frm "Silent Joe," by T Jefferson Parker." Silence is another form of lying."…

— mark Jabbour

Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money.…

— George Soros

So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason…

— Rene Descartes

We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing…

— Aldous Huxley

People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother…

— William Goldman

Because we can't comprehend it, and that's what allows us to do it again. And it is the normal, it's the average…

— Bob Geldof

The discrimination between good and evil is in man's soul. Every man can judge that for himself, because in every man is…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

And his paths shall be many, and who shall know his name, for he shall be beorn among us many times, in…

— Robert Jordan

Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.

— David Deida

Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie.

— Bill Johnson

Love is only one fine star away, even though the living is sometimes laced with lies.

— Stevie Nicks

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

My life is actually empty, so I feel like I'm lying to everyone by pretending to be happy on the outside.

— Sulli

In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.

— Michael Chabon

People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.

— Bill Gross

First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

— Stephen King

Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?

— Vine Deloria Jr

My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.

— Swami Vivekananda

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

— John Carroll

Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.

— Benito Mussolini

Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

— Mark Akenside