True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!.. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and… — Roone Arledge Copy Share Image
A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if… — Will Graham Copy Share Image
...It’s not the lies that hurt people. It’s the willingness of everyone else to believe them..." Aiden, Upon the Midnight Clear by… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We're all impostors to ourselves. By that I mean that we know instinctively, intimately, the difference between whom we are inside and… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm interested in such things as the difference between how we perceive the world and what the world turns out to be.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can… — David Hume Copy Share Image
You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything he says is some variety of lying. The trick - The trick is to look to the side of what he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I'm… — Mahesh Babu Copy Share Image
With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
the 'finely polished word' of Hans Fritzsche was as effective as the surgeon's knife in cutting through the putrefying tissue of lies… — Hans Fritzsche Copy Share Image
Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness,… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
Scientists believe that monkeys can be taught to think, lie and even play politics within their community. If we can just teach… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
You can turn the negative around and use it as a motivating force in your lie. One of my biggest desires has… — Tony Dorsett Copy Share Image
If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in… — Gregg Olsen Copy Share Image
Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I found out a long time ago that if I indulged by stuffing my face with great food, lying about reading books… — Raquel Welch Copy Share Image
The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Someone, or some group in George W. Bush administration, took 300 million people to war against their will, based on a very… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“Da used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers,… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image