Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luigi Pirandello

THE FATHER: But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here? In words, words. Each one of us has within him a whole world of things, each man of us his own special world. And how can we ever come to an understanding if I put in the words I utter the sense and value of things as I see them; while you who listen to me must inevitably translate them according to the conception of things each one of you has within himself. We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The sense of the world must lie outside the world... What we cannot speak about we must remain silent about... What can be described can happen too, and what is excluded by the laws of causality cannot be described.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather - not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought). It will therefore only be in language that the limit can be set, and what lies on the other side of the limit will simply be nonsense.

Lu Xun

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

Luc de Clapiers

The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.

Luc de Clapiers

Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.

Louis Pasteur

Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness.

Louis Pasteur

My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Longchenpa

We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness, where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience, all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality.

Lord Byron

The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

Lord Byron

Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.

Lord Byron

Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.

Lord Acton

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

Jim Rogers

I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up. I do nothing in the meantime.

Jim Rogers

One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do. I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up. I wait for a situation that is like the proverbial shooting fish in a barrel.

John Christopher

The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.

John Ciardi

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

John Connolly

...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.

John Clare

I long for scenes where man has never trod; A place where woman never smil'd or wept; There to abide with my creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept: Untroubling and untroubled where I lie; The grass below--above the vaulted sky.

John Clare

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

John Cleese

When people quote sketches to me, half the time I don't know what they're talking about so I have to sort of go, aha, yes, oh yep, I remember that and lie my way out of it.

M. Scott Peck

In and through community lies the salvation of the world.

M. Scott Peck

The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.

M. Scott Peck

The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.

Lurlene McDaniel

But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

Luise Rainer

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it you're not even aware, only afterwards do you know you were happy.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.

John Cheever

The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of the night, to have returned to the world of apples, the orchards of Heaven. Perhaps I should take my problems to a shrink, or perhaps I should enjoy the apples that I have, streaked with color like the evening sky.

John Cheever

Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked. . .The telling of lies is a sort of sleight of hand that displays our deepest feelings about life.