Lies Quotes
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But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.
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Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
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The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.
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The fault of many of our artists and intellectuals lies in their original sin: they are not true revolutionaries. We can try to graft the elm tree so that it will bear pears, but at the same time we must plant pear trees. New generations will come that will be free of original sin.
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We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.
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A dialogue of respect is the rock-bed of all societies. Attacking and excluding others, insulting other peoples and their faith and convictions - this is no way forward. The future lies in unity and respect, not division and stereotypes.
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Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.
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Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
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In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
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It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from ‘the wise man’s mouth’ but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.
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There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
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The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.
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Expect nothing more from philosophy than a voice, language and grammar of the instinct for Godliness that lies at its origin, and, essentially, is philosophy itself.
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They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
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True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.
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You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.
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Oh tell me where the answer lies,Is it in the notebook behind your eyes?
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The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.
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In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "No lie will last forever." We have to work at removing lies from our own hearts. And on the national level, we do this not because we blame our country, but because we love it.
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Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
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The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A poet's biography lies in his twists of language, in his meters, rhymes, and metaphors.
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Before speaking without knowledge, saying lies, you have to present evidence.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
