Quotes about lying
lying effort obscurity
What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown. Marcel Proust
lying rely-upon done
Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.
lying believe ends
Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."
lying love-is suffering
How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in a world where love is provoked by a lie and consists solely in the need of having our sufferings appeased by whatever being has made us suffer?
lying real might
How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?
lying reality knowing
But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.
lying cease
It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.
lying humanity essentials
Lies are essential to humanity.
lying pride son
One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices that will not allow them the use of that faculty. Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation, or the continuance of his species. Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. Joseph Addison
lying fall science
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him.
lying mind secret
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
lying mind culture
The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
lying impossible heavy
The time never lies heavy upon him; it is impossible for him to be alone.
lying war lost
Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.
lying doe enthusiasm
Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.
lying science two
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. Josefina Vazquez Mota
lying virtue middle
Virtue lies in the middle ground. Jose Rizal
lying men firsts
The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie. Joseph A. Schumpeter
lying fronts
That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us. Jose Saramago
lying thinking issues
Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the same token we rarely think of them.... One may symbolize the individual life as a bank of issue. The bank lives on the credit of a gold reserve which is rarely seen, which lies at the bottom of metal coffers hidden in the vaults of the building. The most elementary caution will suggest that from time to time the effective condition of these guaranties--of these credences, one might say, that are the basis of credit--be passed in review. Jose Ortega y Gasset
lying men order
He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only acquainted with one science, and even of that one only knows the small corner in which he is an active investigator. He even proclaims it as a virtue that he takes no cognisance of what lies outside the narrow territory specially cultivated by himself, and gives the name of "dilettantism" to any curiosity for the general scheme of knowledge.
lying nowhere-to-go deceit
They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go. Jose Gonzalez
lying reality interesting
You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but that hypotheses may not. In the hypothesis you have postulated, chance intervenes largely. Here lies a dead rabbi; I should prefer a purely rabbinical explanation; not the imaginary mischances of an imaginary robber. Jorge Luis Borges
lying writing joy
Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies. Jonathan Stroud
lying father devil
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him. Jonathan Swift
lying excuse guarded
A lie is an excuse guarded
lying apology challenges
I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap. Kevin Rudd
lying facts bed
Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia. Keith Waterhouse
lying cutting blood
He glanced down at the blood-smeared cut on his side...and realized he wasn't wearing any clothing. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't realized it already. Kind of obvious. It wasn't like he'd been going to take time out to find his clothing before stopping Liam. Kelley Armstrong
lying thank-god would-be
Life experience. I can talk it up, vow to broaden my horizons, but I’m still limited to the experiences with my life. How can a person understand an experience that lies completely outside her own? She can see it, feel it, imagine what it would be like to live it, but it’s no different from seeing a movie on a screen and saying, “Thank God that’s not me”.
lying deceit harsh
No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.
lying people politics
In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
lying love-you thinking
Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.