Lying Quotes

8656 Lying quotes by 4266 unique authors

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel
What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when… — Gaston Bachelard
The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their… — John Baldoni
Life to me is the greatest of all games. The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly,… — Ernest Shackleton
If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. Never lie to yourself. — Paulo Coelho
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is… — Mark Twain
Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative — Aristotle
Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you will capture differences.… — Carol Tavris
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other… — Michel de Montaigne
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to… — Albert Einstein
I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I go berserk just… — William Saroyan
Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. — Leo Tolstoy
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be… — David Hume
In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies within him, in… — Glenn Cunningham
In the depths of your hopes and desires, lies your silent knowledge of the beyond, and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams… — Khalil Gibran
You have to bounce in life with joy. Your strength lies in your smiles and your songs. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there. — Unknown Author
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness… — Thomas Merton
No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you. — Meister Eckhart
For what lies inside the human being is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In our inner organism we have an image of the… — Rudolf Steiner
In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of… — M.C. Escher
We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact. — Angelus Silesius
For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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