Lying Quotes

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You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off… — Desiderius Erasmus
Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness. — Alan Cohen
An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the… — M. Scott Peck
When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at… — Stephen Schwartz
Some people find the experience and practice of compassion as a spiritual discipline to be a more direct route to the transformation of the heart… — Marcus Borg
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained. — Saint Augustine
A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence. — Elihu Burritt
I have always felt that the moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter… — Monica Baldwin
There is no heaven and there is no hell. They are not geographical, they are part of your psychology. They are psychological. To live the… — Rajneesh
Be faithful in the little things, for in them our strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and… — Mother Teresa
To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms lying beneath them,… — Francis Crick
Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple. — Thomas Huxley
Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the prime principle of… — Charles Darwin
The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material… — Stephen Jay Gould
The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying. — Thomas Huxley
All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application. — Adolf Hitler
Lying can never save us from another lie. — Vaclav Havel

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