Quotes on Lying

Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.

If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie and once they begin to lie they will act wickedly without concern.

Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life... Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The power of the heart is to be connected with who you are at the deepest level. The power of the heart is the power of life itself, the power of the very intelligence that pervades and underlies the entire universe. It is a power that lies at the very heart of the universe. So to live in connectedness with that, then you are in touch with the power of the heart.

Christianity is in its very essence a resurrection religion. The concept of resurrection lies at its heart. If you remove it, Christianity is destroyed.

The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives.

When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.

The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.

Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.

My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows.

In my show I announce, 'People say Lady Gaga is a lie, and they are right. I am a lie. And every day I kill to make it true.'