Lies Quotes

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.

Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?

Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.

As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.