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Lying Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
- There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It…
- Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
- When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
- Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.
- On all the peaks lies peace.
- None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by…
- The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever…
- A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
- It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
- There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
- Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A…
- Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he…
- Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude.…
- In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
- It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies…
- The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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