Lies Quotes - page 5

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. (Michelangelo)
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom. View quote
Georg Cantor
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. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. View quote
Winston Churchill
Here lies one whose name was writ in water. View quote
John Keats
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor. (Basil of Caesarea)
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. View quote
Andre Norton
The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science. View quote
Bruce H. Lipton
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature. View quote
Elihu Root
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. View quote
Kakuzo Okakura
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies. View quote
Marc Bloch
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
True beauty lies in purity of the heart. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid.) View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences. View quote
William James
Ridiculous. But lies were what people wanted; that was politics. (Kim Stanley Robinson)
Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
There is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. View quote
George Eliot
If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. View quote
George Eliot
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. View quote
William Ellery Channing