Lying Quotes

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is a lie, this nations trust has always been with the dollar.

The real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development

Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.

It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!

Security lies in our ability to produce.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.

The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.

To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.

It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.

Lie on your back and look at the stars.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.

My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.

To reach up for the new, you must let go of the old. What lies behind you is not nearly as important as what lies in front of you.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.

The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.

Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.

The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.

Sometimes you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about...That always worries me!

There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.

Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.

If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don't believe you. I mean, they're lying.

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for one side simply to be wrong.

The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.

Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself.

I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.

The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.

Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.

If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey, standing over me, saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere