Lying Quotes

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Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge.… — Clifford Stoll
Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the beach while the… — Charles Sanders Peirce
The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would… — Arthur C. Clarke
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a… — Henry David Thoreau
When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to… — W. S. Gilbert
Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves? — Martin Luther
Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time… — John Tyler
I think we're making progress. We understand where the power of this country lay. It lies in the hearts and souls of Americans. It must… — George W. Bush
But as importantly, it lies in the fact that we've got citizens from all walks of life, all political parties, that are willing to say,… — George W. Bush
Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its… — Adolf Hitler
Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies. — D. H. Lawrence
They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame. — William Shakespeare
Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true. — Ernest Renan
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth. — William Hazlitt
You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody. — Jean Giraudoux
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it. — Walter Savage Landor
A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence. — Joseph Conrad

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