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| Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be outraged by silence. Henri Fr?d?ric Amiel Quotes |
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| Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented. Georges Braque Quotes |
| I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy. Samuel Butler Quotes |
| It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. Arthur Calwell Quotes |
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| Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. Miguel de Cervantes Quotes |
| There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. Hietzsche Quotes |
| Who lies for you will lie against you. Bosnian Proverb Quotes |
| Truth is the safest lie. Jewish Proverb Quotes |
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| A half-truth is a whole lie. Jewish Proverb Quotes |
| This above all: TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE. And it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. William Shakespeare Quotes |
| There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Mark Twain Quotes |
| One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. Mark Twain Quotes |
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| Round numbers are always false. Dr Samuel Johnson Quotes |
| The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. H L Mencken Quotes |
| No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Quotes |
| The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes |
| Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. Aristotle Quotes |
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| Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes |
| The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Quotes |
| All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. H L Mencken Quotes |
| A lie told often enough becomes the truth. Lenin Quotes |
| The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. Mark Twain Quotes |
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| False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Plato Quotes |
| Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable. Sophocles Quotes |
| Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Joseph Addison Quotes |
| Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. The Bible Quotes |
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| Only lie about the future. Johnny Carson Quotes |
| Legend: a lie that has attained the dignity of age. H L Mencken Quotes |
| Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| If you are rich, you speak the truth; if you are poor, your words are but lies. Chinese Proverb Quotes |
| Travellers from afar can lie with impunity. French Proverb Quotes |
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| Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it. Fulton John Sheen Quotes |
| You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. Paul Ambroise Valery Quotes |
| Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. H G Wells Quotes |
| If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? Douglas Noel Adams Quotes |
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| Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Douglas Noel Adams Quotes |
| Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason. Douglas Noel Adams Quotes |
| The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time. Franklin P. Adams Quotes |
| Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. James Truslow Adams Quotes |
| Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact. James Truslow Adams Quotes |
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| The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. Richard Adams Quotes |
| I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. Joseph Addison Quotes |
| If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. Joseph Addison Quotes |
| The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth. Alfred Adler Quotes |
| It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. Æschylus Quotes |
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| A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. Aesop Quotes |
| Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. James Agee Quotes |
| Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them. Louisa May Alcott Quotes |
| Man is what he believes. George Herbert Allen Quotes |
| The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs. James Lane Allen Quotes |
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| Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. Woody Allen Quotes |
| On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. Woody Allen Quotes |
| A belief is not true because it is useful. Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quotes |
| Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be outraged by silence. Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quotes |
| It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams. Eric Anderson Quotes |
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| Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life,--there, if one must speak out, the real man. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Quotes |
| Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to understand; understand to judge. Apothegm of Narda Quotes |
| I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this; dream a great dream. John A. Appleman Quotes |
| All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. Dr. Arbthnot Quotes |
| What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations … is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts. Hannah Arendt Quotes |
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| Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. Hannah Arendt Quotes |
| I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. Pietro Aretino Quotes |
| Comedy is allied to justice. Aristophenes Quotes |
| The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. Aristotle Quotes |
| What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. Aristotle Quotes |
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| It [a letter] contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth. Robert Armstrong Quotes |
| I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday; I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today. Matthew Arnold Quotes |
| Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you. Sir William Arthur Quotes |
| I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. Athenæus Quotes |
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| For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own. Athenæus Quotes |
| It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes |
| I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do. Norman R. Augustine Quotes |
| A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. Saint Augustine Quotes |
| Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Saint Augustine Quotes |
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| Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotes |
| I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotes |
| Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. Ausonius Quotes |
| I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance. James A. Autry Quotes |
| The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Richard David Bach Quotes |
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| Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. Gaston Bachelard Quotes |
| Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
| The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
| Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
| When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements. Pearl Bailey Quotes |
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| Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance. James Arthur Baldwin Quotes |
| One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. Honoré de Balzac Quotes |
| I believe in the incomprehensibility of God. Honoré de Balzac Quotes |
| Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. Bruce Barton Quotes |
| The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes |
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| Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. D. A. Battista Quotes |
| Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization. L. Frank Baum Quotes |
| Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies. Romare Beardon Quotes |
| When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form. Simone de Beauvoir Quotes |
| As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in. Edward Bedore Quotes |
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| Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
| Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open. (Arthur) Clive Quotes |
| A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedence, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. Robert Charles Benchley Quotes |
| The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need. Warren G. Bennis Quotes |
| Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. Warren G. Bennis Quotes |
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| Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Bernard Berenson Quotes |
| There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens. Elizabeth Berg Quotes |
| You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world. Sir Walter Besant Quotes |
| I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and Bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. Henry Bessemer Quotes |
| Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Ephesians 4:25 Bible Quotes |
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| I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage; be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord. Psalm 27: 13-14 Bible Quotes |
| History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Quotes |
| Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Quotes |
| I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway. Josh Billings Quotes |
| People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. Prince Otto Quotes |
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| I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. Shirley Temple Black Quotes |
| Truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent. William Blake Quotes |
| He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe. William Blake Quotes |
| It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only. William Blake Quotes |
| He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. William Blake Quotes |
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| Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win? Henry C. Blinn Quotes |
| When the Japanese mend broken objects they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold, because they believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. Barbara Bloom Quotes |
| The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. Niels Henrik David Bohr Quotes |
| A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind. Robert Oxton Bolt Quotes |
| Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. Napolean Bonaparte Quotes |
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| The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. Hal Borland Quotes |
| The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world. Max Born Quotes |
| Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts. F. F. Bosworth Quotes |
| If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. Alec Bourne Quotes |
| False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. John Christian Bovee Quotes |
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| 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it. Elizabeth Bowen Quotes |
| I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life. Malcolm Boyd Quotes |
| In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. Louis Dembitz Brandeis Quotes |
| I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal. Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun Quotes |
| Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values. Gerald Quotes |
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| Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. Stephen A. Brennan Quotes |
| There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. Kingman Brewster, Jr. Quotes |
| Maybe you are the cool generation ... If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration. Kingman Brewster, Jr. Quotes |
| [On her first meeting with he ex-husband, Steven Seagal:] He reminded me of an alien. Kelly Le Brock Quotes |
| [Richard] Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win … and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied. Fawn M. Brodie Quotes |
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| I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change-within himself, not on the outside. Joseph Brodsky Quotes |
| For aesthetics is the mother of ethics…. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens. Joseph Brodsky Quotes |
| Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes |
| Whoso loves, believes the impossible. Elizabeth Barret Browning Quotes |
| It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. Giordano Bruno Quotes |
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| I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. Sir John Buchan Quotes |
| If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine; if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition; if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine. Henry Thomas Buckle Quotes |
| Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. Buddha Quotes |
| Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. Buddha Quotes |
| Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. Eustace Budgell Quotes |
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| There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men. Edmund Burke Quotes |
| At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett Quotes |
| Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client. William Seward Burroughs Quotes |
| Believe in something larger than yourself. Barbara Bush Quotes |
| My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to come. George Herbert Walker Bush Quotes |
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| The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger." [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon] George Walker Bush Quotes |
| What makes all doctrines plain and clear?- About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again? Two hundred more. Samuel Butler Quotes |
| Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to know how to lie well. Samuel Butler Quotes |
| It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies. Samuel Butler Quotes |
| In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. Robert Quotes |
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| It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem-and in my esteem age is not estimable. George Gordon Byron Quotes |
| Men willingly believe what they wish. Gaius Julius Caesar Quotes |
| For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress. John Calvin Quotes |
| The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods. John Calvin Quotes |
| Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today's sweeping references to America's 'Christian' roots and 'Judeo-Christian heritage' ought to be amended. Maybe these terms should be reserved to explain the traditional religions and morality of individuals, families, congregations, small communitities. Politically, our notions of virtue and vice have had another genesis. Colin Campbell Quotes |
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| I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell Quotes |
| A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories: Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden. Albert Camus Quotes |
| I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness. Albert Camus Quotes |
| Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. George Quotes |
| I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. Thomas Carlyle Quotes |
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| Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Thomas Carlyle Quotes |
| If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. Dale Carnegie Quotes |
| Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. Dale Carnegie Quotes |
| If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. Dale Carnegie Quotes |
| Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Lewis Carroll Quotes |
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| Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.' Lewis Carroll Quotes |
| Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in. Wanda Carter Quotes |
| You can't divorce religious belief and public service ... I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other. James Earl Quotes |
| For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years. James Earl Quotes |
| Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who believes that his own truth is complete and final must become a dogmatist...The more sincere his faith, the more he is bound to persecute, to save others from falling into error. (Arthur) Joyce Quotes |
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| Most people die at the last minute; others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. Louis Celine Quotes |
| Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. Miguel Cerbantes Quotes |
| A closed mouth catches no flies. Miguel de Cervantes Quotes |
| 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it. Miguel de Cervantes Quotes |
| Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water. Miguel de Cervantes Quotes |
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| There are only two families in the world, the Haves and Have-Nots. Miguel de Cervantes Quotes |
| We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators. Neville Chamberlain Quotes |
| The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusion. Maurice Chapelain Quotes |
| Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Quotes |
| The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes |
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| I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes |
| The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows; and that all things are but aspects of one thing; a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God? 'No,' said Father Brown. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes |
| I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes |
| I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life? Child Age 15 Quotes |
| Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. Mary Cholmondeley Quotes |
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| There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past. Noam Chomsky Quotes |
| In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quotes |
| We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quotes |
| The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quotes |
| A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quotes |
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| To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times? Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes |
| Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed. Tom Clancy Quotes |
| Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. Felix Cohen Quotes |
| Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either. Jerry Coleman Quotes |
| Last night's Homer was Willie Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500. Jerry Coleman Quotes |
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| Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia. Jerry Coleman Quotes |
| Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now. Jerry Coleman Quotes |
| Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes |
| Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes |
| If kids come to us [educators/teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important. Barbara Colorose Quotes |
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| Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human. John Cogley Commonweal Quotes |
| To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom. Confucius Quotes |
| I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand. Confucius Quotes |
| The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad Quotes |
| The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses. Bryce Courtenay Quotes |
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| Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again. Noel Coward Quotes |
| I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have. Coleman Cox Quotes |
| Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear. Dinah Mulock Craik Quotes |
| Being filled with the Holy Spirit, then, is a matter of obedience to the Word of God. The filling of the Spirit that all experienced at Pentecost was a matter of a promise being fulfilled. Today, the believer is to be filled in obedience to the command of Ephesians 5:18, continuously, not merely by a single, crisis experience. The Christian life is a growth process toward maturity. Clarence Cramer Quotes |
| A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.' Stephen Crane Quotes |
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| I am a firm believer of reading the horoscopes. I read all twelve, pick the one that sounds the best and go with that one. David A. Cronin Quotes |
| Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point: every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough; the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions? Let us examine the question. Aleister Crowley Quotes |
| I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me. Mario M(atthew) Cuomo Quotes |
| Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. Marie Curie Quotes |
| It is not observed in history that families improve with time. George William Curtis Quotes |
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| If you believe that discrimination exists, it will. Anthony J. D'Angelo Quotes |
| Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth. Charles Anderson Dana Quotes |
| When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. Clarence Darrow Quotes |
| The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men. Ron Dart Quotes |
| The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man; for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety. Charles Darwin Quotes |
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| False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness. Charles Darwin Quotes |
| As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is. Robertson Davies Quotes |
| The people of the States now confederated.....believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves. Jefferson Davis Quotes |
| Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense. Richard Dawkins Quotes |
| Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him. General Charles De Gaulle Quotes |
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| We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad? Dorothe Deluzy Quotes |
| Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. Demosthenes Quotes |
| Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess. Rene Descartes Quotes |
| Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. Phillip K. Dick Quotes |
| It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way. Charles Dickens Quotes |
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| I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Charles Dickens Quotes |
| It was all right to talk about it. They made plans. They had a moment's vision, a fleeting dream. But in the end, some lack in their moral fiber, some gnawing, nibbling fear held them back. They never started. They stayed where they were. They dropped back. They failed somehow to release within themselves that power which lies in every individual, and is released only when he starts forward in a straight line for the object about which he has dreamed. The man who never starts, never feels that sense of power. Ray Dickinson Quotes |
| We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter. Denis Diderot Quotes |
| The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place. John George Diefenbaker Quotes |
| It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. Annie Dillard Quotes |
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| Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, "That when they speak truth they are not believed. Laertius Diogenes Quotes |
| 'Bury me on my face,' said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, 'Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.' Laertius Diogenes Quotes |
| Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down. Laertius Diogenes Quotes |
| Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. Benjamin Quotes |
| There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. Benjamin Quotes |
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| Nurture your minds with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic makes heroes. Benjamin Quotes |
| Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination. Benjamin Quotes |
| There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. Benjamin Quotes |
| Maybe intentions are the lies in the dark we tell ourselves when who we are falls short of the mark and when we destroy our neighbor we can say 'I never meant any harm.' Danielle Donoho Quotes |
| Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea. Lou Dorfsman Quotes |
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| What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind- the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship. Marie Dressler Quotes |
| Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide. John Dryden Quotes |
| The gates of Hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way; But, to return, and view the cheerful skies; In this, the task and mighty labor lies. John Dryden Quotes |
| If you are faced with an unpleasant person or situation that you can do nothing about, bless the situation. Bless the person and know and believe some good will come from it. . . . All of us have seen good come out of disaster . . . the 'blessing in disguise.' When you expect good to come from negativity, it will. What you think about, you bring about. Joyce Duco Quotes |
| I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest a while. Max Forrester Eastman Quotes |
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| Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. Roger Quotes |
| Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. Umberto Eco Quotes |
| Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. Umberto Eco Quotes |
| The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. (on atomic energy) Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Those people have seen _something_. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers) Albert Einstein Quotes |
| I think and think for months and years, ninety-ninety times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| In the middle of difficulity lies opportunity. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness? The simple answer runs: because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional Bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial Bias. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Relativity applies to physics, not ethics. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| 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. Dwight David Eisenhower Quotes |
| I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. George Eliot Quotes |
| Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. George Eliot Quotes |
| There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. George Eliot Quotes |
| The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. George Eliot Quotes |
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| The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined. George Eliot Quotes |
| I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare. George Eliot Quotes |
| We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity. T. S. Eliot Quotes |
| What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| What lies behind us and what lies before us, Are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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| Truth is beautiful, without a doubt. But so are lies. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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| They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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| The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile...it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, denying them. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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| All philosophy lies in two words: Sustain and Abstain. Epictetus Quotes |
| We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free. Epictetus Quotes |
| I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen. Abd Er-Rahman III Quotes |
| In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. ... Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying ... on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace. Louise Erdrich Quotes |
| Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe. Euripides Quotes |
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| Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world? Euripides Quotes |
| Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people. Marsha Evans Quotes |
| The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. Michael Faraday Quotes |
| I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. William Faulkner Quotes |
| A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. James Kern Feibleman Quotes |
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| The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten. Jules Feiffer Quotes |
| Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. Martin H. Fischer Quotes |
| Of course I believe that solipsism is the correct philosophy, but that's only one man's opinion. Melvin Fitting Quotes |
| Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. John William Fletcher Quotes |
| Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. Jean de La Fontaine Quotes |
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| I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. Henry Ford Quotes |
| I believe we shall come to care about people less and less…. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. Edward Morgan Forster Quotes |
| Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake. Edward Morgan Forster Quotes |
| To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but also believe. Anatole France Quotes |
| I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. Anne Frank Quotes |
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| Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. Anne Frank Quotes |
| He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it. Don Fraser Quotes |
| The age of Grace began in mid-Acts, after the conversion of the Apostle Paul. It is through his letters alone that we learn about the dispensation of Grace, about Israel being set aside, with Jew and Gentile being saved into the Body of Christ. It was Paul who taught 'all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses' (Acts 21:21). It was also Paul who proclaimed the forgiveness of sins 'to all who would believe' in Christ, adding that 'ye could not be justified by the law of Moses' (Acts 13:38-39). The measuring rod of grace tells us that the age of Grace began with Paul, then continued through those who were saved and subsequently carried on His God-given doctrines of grace. John Fredericksen Quotes |
| If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated. Erich Fromm Quotes |
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| Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies? Erich Fromm Quotes |
| Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. Robert Lee Frost Quotes |
| I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death. Robert Quotes |
| It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. (Sarah) Margaret Fuller Quotes |
| The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. (Sarah) Margaret Fuller Quotes |
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| He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. Dr. Thomas Fuller Quotes |
| An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. Dr. Thomas Fuller Quotes |
| He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief. Dr. Thomas Fuller Quotes |
| The common dogma [of fundamentalists] is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity. G Gaia Quotes |
| I believe that if i should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps. Benito Perez Galdos Quotes |
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| I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei Quotes |
| I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use. Galileo Galilei Quotes |
| The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of. Albert Gallatin Quotes |
| If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Quotes |
| Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Quotes |
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| Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment. Full effort is full victory. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Quotes |
| When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied, 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light. John W(illiam) Gardner Quotes |
| Most of our students are here to get the credentials they believe are central to admission to the Dream. Everyone does the rhetoric bit-Fascist pig this and that-but push them and they ask you to write recommendations for jobs with banks and insurance companies. John Gargin Quotes |
| We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank. Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes |
| Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti Quotes |
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| History … is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Edward Gibbon Quotes |
| The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. Edward Gibbon Quotes |
| My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. "Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. "Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. "Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. "Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. "Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. "Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation. Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them. Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say. Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
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| Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. André Gide Quotes |
| Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers! William S. Gilbert Quotes |
| Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. Bhagavad Gita Quotes |
| This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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| I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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| Whatever you can do, or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen. Foka Gomez Quotes |
| People will believe anything. They will believe it because they want it to be true, or because they are afraid it is. Terry Goodkind Quotes |
| Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty. Raisa M. Gorbachev Quotes |
| If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out for you in a blueprint, you don't face facts -- what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow. Ruth Gordon Quotes |
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| I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day. William Gordon Quotes |
| Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Rémy de Gourmont Quotes |
| Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil. Baltasar Gracian Quotes |
| A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole. William Franklin Quotes |
| The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again. John Gray Quotes |
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| Telling the truth will lead you to freedom; telling the lies will lead you to slavery. Jameson Green Quotes |
| The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute. John P. Grier Quotes |
| Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. Matt Groening Quotes |
| Earlier people used to switch on TV's after getting bored with their routine work. Now they switch on to routine work after getting bored with TV. B. J. Gupta Quotes |
| Men as well as animals do whatever makes them happy, differences lie in what makes them happy. B. J. Gupta Quotes |
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| In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. David Ben Gurion Quotes |
| Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought. Alexander Hamilton Quotes |
| In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. Alexander Hamilton Quotes |
| You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a patch for Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold Quotes |
| God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold Quotes |
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| I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it... Learned Hand Quotes |
| I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then when somebody comes up act like they just woke up and go, 'What was THAT?!' Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| Whenever I need to ``get away,'' I just get away in my mind. I go to my imaginary spot, where the beach is perfect and the water is perfect and the weather is perfect. The only bad thing there are the flies. They're terrible! Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
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| I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then maybe he's flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the ground. Now that's a documentary! Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new nickname for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname 'Fly Head'. Normally, you would think that 'Fly Head' would mean a person who had beautiful swept-back features, as if flying though the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean 'having a head like a fly'? I'm afraid some people might actually think that. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| Too bad you can't just grab a tree by the very tip-top and bend it clear over the ground and then let her fly, because I bet you'd be amazed at all the stuff that comes flying out. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| I think a cute movie idea would be about a parrot who is raised by eagles. It would be cute because the parrot can't seem to act like an eagle. After a while, though, to keep the movie from getting boring, maybe put in some pornography. Later, we see the happy parrot flying along, acting like an eagle. He see two parrots below and starts to attack, but it's his parents. Then, some more pornography. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
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| To me, there's no better symbol for the world than a grasshopper lying dead on a gravel road, and maybe there's a globe lying next to him. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| It's too bad that whole families have to be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lie down on some seaweed and roll around until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go, 'Hey, I'm Vine Man.' Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk? And after you're real drunk, maybe go down to the public park and stagger around and ask people for money, and then lie down and go to sleep. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
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| Broken promises don't upset me. I just think, why did they believe me? Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| We like to praise birds for flying. But how much of it is actually flying, and how much of it is just sort of coasting from the previous flap? Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| If doctors ever tell you that you've 'flipped out,' don't believe them, and just keep on doing what you were doing, because something tells me 'the Man' is behind this. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
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| We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say we were just kidding, that this isn't really our civilization, but a gag we hoped they would like. Then we tell them to come back in twenty years to see our REAL civilization. After that, we start a crash program of coming up with an impressive new civilization. Either that, or just shoot down the aliens as they're waving good-bye. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| If the captain invited me to his party, after he had whipped me earlier in the day, up on deck, I guess I'd go, but I'd try to find some excuse to leave early. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| For believe me, in this world which is ever slipping from under our feet, it is the prerogative of friendship to grow old with one's friends. Arthur S. Hardy Quotes |
| If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst. Thomas Hardy Quotes |
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| Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. Thomas Hardy Quotes |
| An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. Sydney J. Harris Quotes |
| The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones-which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. Sydney J. Harris Quotes |
| Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. Sydney J. Harris Quotes |
| The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational. Sydney J. Harris Quotes |
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| And I said to the one who stood at the gate of the year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the Unknown.' And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.' Minnie Haskins Quotes |
| Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals. Václav Havel Quotes |
| Society is a complex and mysterious creation and . it's extremely imprudent to believe in the fact it presents you with at a given moment, let alone to consider it the one and only true face. Václav Havel Quotes |
| A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the turtle standing on?' 'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the little old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.' |
