Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.

Plautus

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

Plautus

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

Plato

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Plato

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

Plato

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

Plato

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

Plato

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Plato

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Philip Wylie

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

Philip Larkin

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

Paula Jones

I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.

Paula Fox

A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

Paula Abdul

Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.

Paula Abdul

All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.

Paul Weller

You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.

Martin Schulz

Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage.

Martin Rees

Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity's role in nature. One thing we've learnt from astronomy is that the future lying ahead is more prolonged than the past. Even our sun is less than halfway through its life.

Lee Child

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

Laurieann Gibson

The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie.

Laverne Cox

Whether you're transgender or not, most of us get to a point in our lives where we can no longer lie to ourselves.

Laurie Simmons

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

Lauryn Hill

A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.

Lance Morrow

The kiss is a wordless articulation of desire whose object lies in the future, and somewhat to the south.

Lance Armstrong

I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.

Lisa Randall

Physics has entered a remarkable era. Ideas that were once the realm of science fiction are now entering our theoretical — and maybe even experimental — grasp. Brand-new theoretical discoveries about extra dimensions have irreversibly changed how particle physicists, astrophysicists, and cosmologists now think about the world. The sheer number and pace of discoveries tells us that we've most likely only scratched the surface of the wondrous possibilities that lie in store. Ideas have taken on a life of their own.

Lisa See

Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest.

Johnny Depp

While they'd be setting up shots, suddenly, there were 17 make-up chicks, just listening to Marlon telling these amazing stories that were probably lies. He was a fascinating individual. I learned a lot from him.

Johnny Depp

I actually tell lies for a living. Exactly. I mean, that's what acting is, really.

Johnny Depp

You could make an analogy to a security guard who, three weeks prior, was mowing lawns for a living. The second he puts a uniform on and that badge, he's a man. I imagine the majority of us have felt the wrath of the over-zealous security guard guy. Is there something lying dormant in the man, that's waiting to be pumped up with that kind of power? I don't know. Does it reveal him? I don't know. Does it change him? I don't know.

Johnny Depp

People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.

John Turturro

My interest lies in my self-expression -- what's inside of me -- not what I'm in.

John Trudell

The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie, is that it represents civilization.