Lying Quotes

8656 quotes by 4266 authors

A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie… — Bertrand Russell
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by… — David Hume
We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future. — Frederic William Maitland
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that Once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women,… — G. M. Trevelyan
I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie. — Bob Hope
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying… — Alan Kay
There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence… — Bertrand Russell
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change… — Malcolm Forbes
To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom. — Confucius
One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a… — Yo-Yo Ma
There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to… — Emma Thompson
The essential difference between that knowledge which is, and that which is not conclusive evidence of Christian character, lies in this: the object of the… — Gardiner Spring
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. — Octavio Paz
Deep meaning lies often in childish play. — Friedrich Schiller
Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature or swimming in… — Barry Long
If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in… — Jean-Paul Sartre
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet… — Robert Louis Stevenson

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