Lies Quotes - page 3

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. (Graham Greene)
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. View quote
Graham Greene
The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity. View quote
Maria Montessori
The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision. View quote
George Eliot
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization. View quote
Charles Lindbergh
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is. (Bruce Lee)
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. View quote
Edmund Burke
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. View quote
Teresa of Ávila
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen. View quote
Norman Mailer
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. View quote
William Morris
The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. View quote
E. M. Forster
You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise. View quote
Maya Angelou
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. View quote
Joseph Addison
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well. (P. G. Wodehouse)
Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive. View quote
Tim Allen
Only lies and evil come from letting people off. View quote
Iris Murdoch
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. View quote
Willa Cather
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? View quote
Robert Browning