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Lie Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their…
- Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the…
- We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when…
- Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual…
- Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.
- Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
- A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America,…
- Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their yea…
- Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature.…
- In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more…
- Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light,…
- The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by…
- We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
More Lie Quotes
- I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a… — David Arquette
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman
- I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I… — Amy Adams
- Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. — Mikhail Bakunin
- The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. — Lucille Ball
- Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by… — Drew Barrymore
- Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he… — Bob Beauprez
- Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground… — Walter Benjamin
- The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. — Alfred Adler
- It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. — Alfred Adler