Home / Topics / Lying Quotes

Lying Quotes

Browse 12355 quotes about Lying.

Lying Quotes

“It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It's about the soul of America, really. What people brought to America; what found them when they came; and the things that lie sleeping beneath it all.”

People Book Soul America Romance Lying Found Sleep Secret Magic Danger Strange Mirrors Depth

Author:Neil Gaiman

“[The masses] ... must turn their hopes toward a miracle. In the depths of their despair reason cannot be believed, truth must be false, and lies must be truth. "Higher bread prices," "lower bread prices," "unchanged bread prices" have all failed. The only hope lies in a kind of bread price which is none of these, which nobody has ever seen before, and which belies the evidence of one's reason.”

Kind Reason Lying Turns Higher Despair Mass Evidence Miracle Depth Bread

Book:The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism

Source: The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism

“We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.”

“Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.”

Lying Poverty Virtue Depth Aids Helpless

Book:The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis

Source: The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis

“The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy.”

Men World Years Children Earth Lying Energy Wealth Progress He Man Depth Surface Treasure Civilized Immense Psychics Constructive Noticing Infancy Unnoticed

Author:Maria Montessori

“Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.”

Action Lying Force Issues Rocks Products Depth Primitive Petroleum Distillation

Author:Alexander von Humboldt

“Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.”

Believe Wells Important Facts Lying Found Truth Is Mountain Regard Depth Valleys Superficial Mountain Top

Book:The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Source: The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

“The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's a home.”

Men May Home Lying Sea Land Bird Bravery Brave Depth Fishes Blow Breeze Brave Man

Author:Ovid