Lying Quotes

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Between the vision and the act lies the shadow. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world… — Brian Eno
The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of… — Stephen Jay Gould
"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept… — Anthony de Mello
In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us. — Peter Matthiessen
It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others. — Maurice Maeterlinck
Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other's home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for. God, the true… — Ramakrishna
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out. — Mark Twain
I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than… — P.J. O'Rourke
Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this… — Todd Rundgren
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of… — George Orwell
Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies. — Sarah Josepha Hale
It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to… — Marcel Proust
The more we create, the more we love and lose those whom we love, the more we escape from death. With every new work we… — Romain Rolland
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to… — Benjamin E. Mays
Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character. — Lord Acton
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the… — Bernard Baruch
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next… — Robert Collier
As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the… — Mark Twain
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. — Robert Breault

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