lie quotes

“If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.”

“No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.”

“A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. ”

“I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. ”

“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. ”

“It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.”

“When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.”

“ In love we often doubt what we most believe.”

“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”

“It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.”

“If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.”

“In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.”

“When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.”

“Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.”

“The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.”

“I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.”

“I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.”

“One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.”

“My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.”

“I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.”

“A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. ”

“To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.”

“Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. ”

“A lie never lives to be old. ”

“No lie ever reaches old age.”

“Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.”

“A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.”

“Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.”

“A library implies an act of faith.”

“One believes others will do what he will do to himself.”