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Lying Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a…
- We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded…
- A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about…
- The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.
- Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
- In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy…
- There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies…
- If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and…
More Lying Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a… — David Arquette
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius