Mark Twain Quotes, Lying Quotes, Said Quotes

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

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I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.

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The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

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This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

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The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others.

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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

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A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Lying Quotes , Moving Quotes

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Lying Quotes , Errors Quotes

We have seemingly been divided, limited, because of our ignorance; and we have become as it were the little Mrs. so - and - so and Mr. so - and - so. But all nature is giving this delusion the lie every moment. I am not that little man or little woman cut off from all else; I am the one universal existence. The soul in its own majesty is rising up every moment and declaring its own intrinsic Divinity.

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If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.

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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

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Man is bound to lie about himself

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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

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Just as the value of a house lies in its location, The value of a mind lies in its depth, The value of giving lies in the presence of a generous spirit, The value of words lies in their reliability.

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To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.

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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

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The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.

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