Lying Quotes

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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend. — Alan Dean Foster
"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total conduct of men… — Max Wertheimer
It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt. — Francis Bacon
Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom… — John Owen
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth. — Henrik Ibsen
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was… — Jonathan Swift
Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a… — Benoit Mandelbrot
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and… — G. H. Hardy
The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom. — Georg Cantor
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is… — Samuel Johnson
Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her. — Charles Caleb Colton
To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to… — Thomas Jefferson
In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his… — Leonardo da Vinci
What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church? [...]… — Martin Luther
They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's… — Pat Robertson
Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have… — Robert Green Ingersoll
There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of… — Albert Einstein

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