Lying Quotes

The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."

Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

This alpha dog is not going to take it lying down next time.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

An area of life that does not have hope is under a lie.

I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.

Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men.

Los Angeles is just New York lying down.

There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.

To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.

Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.

Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size.

The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.

No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.

I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.

The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.

Earth in beauty dressed Awaits returning spring. All true love must die, Alter at the best Into some lesser thing. Prove that I lie.

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.

Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.

I think that the only thing that can bring us into a place of fullness is being out in the land with other. Then we remember where the source of our power lies.

I used to be a major people pleaser, but that way purgatory lies.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

I think every job you have to lie to get. You always say how wonderful it all is, that it's an amazing script - "I love you, you're such a great director." I think every actor does that.

The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.

My life was one very long process of lying and lying again, to figure out how to cover those other lies.