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Lying Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian…
- The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they…
- I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and…
- So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent.…
- There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels?…
- The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a…
- 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…
- 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…
- The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew…
- The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.
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